The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 30
The elephant turned, without a sound, took three strides back to the boy in the moonlight, put down his trunk, swung him up to his neck, and almost before Little Toomai had settled his knees, slipped into the forest.
Who acts: elephant · What happens: turn, take back, put down, swing up, settle, slip · To what, where: three strides, boy, trunk, Kala, neck, Little
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 (elephant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sound | punct |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 sound | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 strides | nummod |
| 11 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 boy | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 moonlight | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moonlight | det |
| 18 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boy | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 put | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 23 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 swung | punct |
| 25 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 swung | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 swung | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 neck | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 neck | nmod:poss |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swung | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 settled | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 settled | cc |
| 33 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 38 settled | advmod |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 38 settled | mark |
| 35 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Little | flat |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 settled | aux |
| 38 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 knees | nmod:poss |
| 40 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 settled | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 slipped | punct |
| 42 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 forest | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 forest | det |
| 45 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 slipped | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the elephant | without a sound | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take back | past | the elephant not said here | three strides | the boy in the moonlight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stride=Theme to boy=Destination | |||
| 3 | put down | infinitive | the elephant not said here | boy's trunk | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent trunk=Goal | ||||
| 4 | swing up | past | the elephant not said here | Kala | Kala's neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to neck=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | settle | past · perfect · passive | Little | almost property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | slip | past | the forest | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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