The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 97
The little chap has saved our lives now.”
What happens: save · To what, where: little chap
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chap | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chap | amod |
| 3 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saved | aux |
| 5 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lives | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saved | obj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saved | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saved | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present · perfect · passive | the little chap | now | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=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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