The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 85
He is smaller than a picket-pin.
Who acts: Toomai · What happens: be
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smaller | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 smaller | cop |
| 3 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 pin | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pin | det |
| 6 | picket | picket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pin | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 picket | punct |
| 8 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smaller | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smaller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Toomai | than a picket pin; small property | 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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