The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 145
“The boy broke it with a stone!” shrieked Darzee’s wife.
Who acts: boy · What happens: break, shriek · To what, where: place, wife
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 (boy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shrieked | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 broke | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
| 11 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Darzee | case |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shrieked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | past | the boy | place | with a stone | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stone=Instrument | |||
| 2 | shriek | past | Darzee's wife | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme |
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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