The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 54

He stole off to Teddy’s bath-room, but there was nothing there, and then to Teddy’s mother’s bathroom.

Who acts: Chua, nothing · What happens: steal off, be

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 (Chua, nothing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 stole	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 room	case
5	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 room	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Teddy	case
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bath	punct
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	parataxis
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 was	nsubj
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 nothing	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bathroom	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bathroom	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 bathroom	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	24 bathroom	case
20	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 mother	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Teddy	case
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bathroom	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 mother	case
24	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal off	past	Chua					to Teddy's bath room	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP 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.

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