The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 25
The big snake turned half around, and saw the egg on the veranda.
Who acts: big snake · What happens: turn, see · To what, where: egg, veranda
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 (big snake), 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 snake | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snake | amod |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 around | advmod |
| 6 | around | around | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 egg | det |
| 11 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 veranda | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 veranda | det |
| 14 | veranda | veranda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the big snake | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the big snake not said here | the egg | the veranda | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus |
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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