The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 91
That set all the birds in the garden singing, and the frogs croaking, for Nag and Nagaina used to eat frogs as well as little birds.
Who acts: That, frogs · What happens: set, croak, use, eat · To what, where: birds, garden singing, Nag, frogs
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 (That, frogs), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 birds | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 birds | det |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 singing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 singing | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 singing | compound |
| 9 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 used | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 used | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frogs | det |
| 13 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 used | nsubj |
| 14 | croaking | croak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 frogs | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nag | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Nag | case |
| 17 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 croaking | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Nagaina | cc |
| 19 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Nag | conj |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 used | xcomp |
| 23 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 eat | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 22 eat | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 birds | case |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 birds | amod |
| 28 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 eat | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | That | all birds | the garden singing | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in singing=Destination | |||
| 2 | croak | gerund | the frogs not said here | Nag and Nagaina | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | past | the frogs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | the frogs not said here | frogs | as little birds | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient |
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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