The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 152
Darzee’s wife knew better than to do that, for a bird who looks at a snake’s eyes gets so frightened that she cannot move.
Who acts: wife, bird · What happens: know, do, look, get, not move · To what, where: that
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 (wife, bird), 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 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Darzee | case |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 knew | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bird | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gets | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 looks | nsubj |
| 15 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bird | acl:relcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 snake | det |
| 18 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 snake | case |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looks | obl |
| 21 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | advcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 frightened | advmod |
| 23 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gets | xcomp |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 move | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 move | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 move | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 move | advmod |
| 28 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 frightened | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Darzee's wife | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Darzee's wife not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | present | a bird | at a snake's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | a bird | frightened property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not move | can | bird | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/14/152/