The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 1
But just as Teddy was stooping, something wriggled a little in the dust, and a tiny voice said: “Be careful.
Who acts: Teddy, something, tiny voice · What happens: stoop, wriggle, say, be · To what, where: little, dust · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teddy, something, tiny voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 stooping | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 stooping | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 stooping | mark |
| 4 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stooping | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stooping | aux |
| 6 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wriggled | punct |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 wriggled | nsubj |
| 9 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stooping | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wriggled | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dust | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dust | det |
| 14 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wriggled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wriggled | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 careful | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 careful | punct |
| 23 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 careful | cop |
| 24 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stooping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past · progressive | Teddy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wriggle | past | something | a little | the dust | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a tiny voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | careful property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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