The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 19
“I have settled it all;” and then Teddy’s mother picked him up from the dust and hugged him, crying that he had saved Teddy from death, and Teddy’s father said that he was a providence, and Teddy looked on with big scared eyes.
Who acts: mother, Teddy, father · What happens: settle, pick up, hug, cry, save, say · To what, where: mongoose, Teddy, dust, death, providence · 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 (mother, Teddy, father), 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 settled | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 settled | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 settled | aux |
| 4 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 settled | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 it | det |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 settled | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 settled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 picked | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 picked | advmod |
| 11 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Teddy | case |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 picked | nsubj |
| 14 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 settled | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 picked | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 picked | compound:prt |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 dust | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dust | det |
| 19 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 picked | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hugged | cc |
| 21 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 picked | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hugged | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 crying | punct |
| 24 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 hugged | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 saved | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saved | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 saved | aux |
| 28 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 crying | ccomp |
| 29 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 saved | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 death | case |
| 31 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saved | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 said | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 said | cc |
| 34 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 father | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Teddy | case |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 said | nsubj |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 picked | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 providence | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 providence | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 providence | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 providence | det |
| 42 | providence | providence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 said | ccomp |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 looked | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 looked | cc |
| 45 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 looked | nsubj |
| 46 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 picked | conj |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 looked | compound:prt |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 eyes | case |
| 49 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 eyes | amod |
| 50 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 eyes | amod |
| 51 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 looked | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle in a quote | present · perfect | Teddy's mother = mother | mongoose | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | Teddy's mother | Teddy | the dust | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||
| 3 | hug | past | Teddy's mother not said here | Teddy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | Teddy's mother not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | save | past · perfect | Teddy | Teddy | death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent teddy=Theme from death=Source | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Teddy's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | father | a providence | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | look on | past | Teddy | with big scared eyes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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