The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 107
Terror that hid in the roses is impotent--flung on the dung-hill and dead!
Who acts: Terror · What happens: hide, be, fling · To what, where: roses, dung hill
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Terror), 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 | Terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 impotent | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Terror | acl:relcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 roses | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roses | det |
| 6 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hid | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 impotent | cop |
| 8 | impotent | impotent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 flung | punct |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 impotent | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 13 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hill | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 dung | punct |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dead | cc |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flung | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 impotent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Terror | the roses | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rose=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Terror | impotent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fling | participle | the dung hill | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on hill=Destination |
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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