The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 92
He was dizzy, aching, and felt shaken to pieces when something went off like a thunderclap just behind him.
Who acts: tikki, something · What happens: be, ache, feel, shake, go off · To what, where: pieces
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 (tikki, something), 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 | 3 dizzy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dizzy | cop |
| 3 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 aching | punct |
| 5 | aching | ache | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 dizzy | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 felt | cc |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dizzy | conj |
| 9 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 felt | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shaken | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 went | advmod |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | advcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 thunderclap | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thunderclap | det |
| 18 | thunderclap | thunderclap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 him | advmod |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dizzy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tikki | dizzy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ache | gerund | tikki not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | tikki not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shake | participle | tikki not said here | pieces | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to piece=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | go off | past | something | like a thunderclap; behind tikki | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=Location |
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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