The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 113
Big Toomai prodded Kala Nag spitefully, for he was very angry, but Little Toomai was too happy to speak.
Who acts: Big Toomai, Toomai, Little Toomai · What happens: prod, be, speak · To what, where: Kala · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Big Toomai, Toomai, Little Toomai), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Toomai | amod |
| 2 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 prodded | nsubj |
| 3 | prodded | prod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 prodded | obj |
| 5 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kala | flat |
| 6 | spitefully | spitefully | ADV | _ | 3 prodded | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 angry | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 angry | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 angry | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 angry | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 angry | advmod |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prodded | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 happy | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 happy | cc |
| 15 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Toomai | amod |
| 16 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 happy | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 happy | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 happy | advmod |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 angry | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 speak | mark |
| 21 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 happy | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prod | past | Big Toomai | Kala | spitefully property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kala=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | Toomai | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Little Toomai | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Little Toomai not said here | vn talk-37.5 «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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