The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 18
Little Toomai slept for some time, and when he waked it was brilliant moonlight, and Kala Nag was still standing up with his ears cocked.
Who acts: Little Toomai, Toomai, bird, Kala · What happens: sleep, wake, be, stand up, cock · To what, where: brilliant moonlight, ears
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Toomai, Toomai, bird, Kala), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Toomai | amod |
| 2 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 waked | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 waked | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 waked | nsubj |
| 11 | waked | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slept | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 moonlight | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 moonlight | cop |
| 14 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moonlight | amod |
| 15 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waked | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 standing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 standing | cc |
| 18 | Kala | Kala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 standing | nsubj |
| 19 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Kala | flat |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 standing | aux |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 standing | advmod |
| 22 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 waked | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 standing | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 ears | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ears | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 standing | obl |
| 27 | cocked | cock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 ears | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | Little Toomai | time | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | Toomai | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | bird | brilliant moonlight | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand up | past · progressive | Kala | still | with Kala's ears | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | cock | participle | Kala's ears not said here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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