The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 96
But the head did not move, and the big man picked him up and said, “It’s the mongoose again, Alice.
Who acts: head, big man · What happens: not move, pick up, say · To what, where: tikki · 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 (head, big man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 move | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 move | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 move | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 move | advmod |
| 6 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 picked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 picked | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picked | nsubj |
| 12 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 move | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 picked | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 picked | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 picked | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ’s | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 ’s | punct |
| 19 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ’s | nsubj |
| 20 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mongoose | det |
| 22 | mongoose | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ’s | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 ’s | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Alice | punct |
| 25 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ’s | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | past · do-support | the head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick up | past | the big man | tikki | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the big man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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