The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 44
Chuchundra sat down and cried till the tears rolled off his whiskers.
Who acts: Chuchundra, tears · What happens: sit down, cry, roll off · To what, where: whiskers
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 (Chuchundra, tears), 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 | Chuchundra | Chuchundra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 rolled | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tears | det |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rolled | nsubj |
| 9 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 rolled | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rolled | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Chuchundra | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Chuchundra not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | roll off | past | the tears | Chuchundra's whiskers | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location whisker=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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