The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 36
Toomai leaned forward and looked, and he felt that the forest was awake below him--awake and alive and crowded.
Who acts: Toomai, forest · What happens: learn, look, feel, be
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 (Toomai, forest), 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 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaned | nsubj |
| 2 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 leaned | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaned | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaned | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 awake | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 awake | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 awake | cop |
| 14 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | advcl |
| 15 | below | below | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 awake | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 awake | punct |
| 18 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 awake | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 alive | cc |
| 20 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 awake | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crowded | cc |
| 22 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 awake | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Toomai | forward property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Toomai not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | Toomai | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the forest | below Toomai; awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the forest not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | be | the forest not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | be | the forest not said here | 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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