The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 71
Still lying down, Little Toomai looked down upon scores and scores of broad backs, and wagging ears, and tossing trunks, and little rolling eyes.
Who acts: Little · What happens: lie down, look down, wag, toss, roll, score · To what, where: ears, trunks, broad backs
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), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 lying | advmod |
| 2 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 looked | advcl |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 lying | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lying | punct |
| 5 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | Toomai | Toomai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Little | flat |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 scores | case |
| 10 | scores | score | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 scores | cc |
| 12 | scores | score | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scores | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 backs | case |
| 14 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 backs | amod |
| 15 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scores | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wagging | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wagging | cc |
| 18 | wagging | wag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 looked | advcl |
| 19 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wagging | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tossing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tossing | cc |
| 22 | tossing | toss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 looked | advcl |
| 23 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tossing | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eyes | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 eyes | cc |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eyes | amod |
| 27 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 eyes | amod |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tossing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | gerund | Little not said here | still | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look down | past | Little | upon scores and scores of broad backs; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon score=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wag | gerund | Little not said here | ears | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | toss | gerund | Little not said here | trunks | little rolling eyes obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | |||
| 5 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | score | broad backs | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=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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