The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 112
It was a very lively march on account of the new elephants, who gave trouble at every ford, and needed coaxing or beating every other minute.
Who acts: silver, lively march · What happens: be, give, need, coax, beat · To what, where: lively march, account, trouble, ford
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver, lively march), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 march | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 march | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 march | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 lively | advmod |
| 5 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 march | amod |
| 6 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 account | case |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 march | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 elephants | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 elephants | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 elephants | amod |
| 12 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 march | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 march | parataxis |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 ford | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 ford | det |
| 19 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 needed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 needed | cc |
| 22 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gave | conj |
| 23 | coaxing | coax | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 needed | xcomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 beating | cc |
| 25 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 coaxing | conj |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 minute | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 minute | amod |
| 28 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beating | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 march | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | silver | a lively march | account | of the new elephants | tree rules | ||
| 2 | give | past | a lively march | trouble | every ford | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme at ford=Asset | |||
| 3 | need | past | a lively march not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | coax not said to happen | gerund | a lively march not said here | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | beat | gerund | a lively march not said here | minute | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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