The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 9
His eyes were all red, and he rocked back and forth, looking for a good place to hold.
Who acts: eyes, Rikki · What happens: be, rock, look, hold
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 (eyes, Rikki), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 red | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 red | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 red | advmod |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rocked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rocked | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rocked | nsubj |
| 9 | rocked | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 red | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 rocked | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forth | cc |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 back | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rocked | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hold | mark |
| 20 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 place | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 red | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rikki's eyes | all, red property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rock | past | Rikki | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Rikki not said here | for a good place | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | to-infinitive | Rikki not said here | 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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