The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 12
Teddy’s eyes were fixed on his father, and all his father could do was to whisper, “Sit still, Teddy.
Who acts: father · What happens: fix, do, be, whisper, sit · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father), 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 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Teddy | case |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fixed | aux:pass |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fixed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 father | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fixed | conj |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 whisper | mark |
| 18 | whisper | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 was | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sit | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sit | punct |
| 21 | Sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 whisper | ccomp |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 Sit | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Teddy | punct |
| 24 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sit | vocative |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · passive | Teddy's eyes | on man's father | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | could | man's father | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | past | man's father not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | whisper speech: assert | to-infinitive | man's father not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sit in a quote | infinitive | still | Teddy vocative | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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