The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 71
That is a big thorn that I have pulled out!”
Who acts: That · What happens: be, pull out · To what, where: big thorn
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 (That), 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 | 5 thorn | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thorn | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thorn | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thorn | amod |
| 5 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pulled | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | aux |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thorn | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pulled | compound:prt |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thorn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a big thorn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull out | present · perfect · passive | a big thorn | tree rules |
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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