The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 90
Was it to help thee steal green corn from the roofs of the houses when the ears are put out to dry?”
Who acts: trick · What happens: be, steal, put out, dry · To what, where: green corn, roofs, ears
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 (trick), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 help | mark |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corn | amod |
| 8 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steal | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 roofs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roofs | det |
| 11 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 steal | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 houses | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 houses | det |
| 14 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 roofs | nmod |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 put | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ears | det |
| 17 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux:pass |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 houses | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 put | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 dry | mark |
| 22 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 put | advcl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | trick | help property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steal | infinitive | trick not said here | green corn | the roofs of the houses | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent corn=Theme from roof=Source | |||
| 3 | put out | present · passive | the ears | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 4 | dry | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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