The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 2
When an Indian child’s heart is full, he does not run about and make a noise in an irregular fashion.
Who acts: heart, Toomai · What happens: be, not run about, make · To what, where: noise, irregular fashion
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 (heart, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 full | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 child | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 full | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | cop |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 run | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 run | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 run | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 run | advmod |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 full | parataxis |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 run | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 run | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 noise | det |
| 18 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fashion | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fashion | det |
| 21 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fashion | amod |
| 22 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a Indian child's heart | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not run about | present · do-support | Toomai | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | Toomai not said here | a noise | a irregular fashion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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