The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 87
Then he heard a thump and a shuffle, and the booming went on.
Who acts: sound, booming · What happens: hear, go on · To what, where: thump
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 (sound, booming), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thump | det |
| 5 | thump | thump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shuffle | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shuffle | det |
| 8 | shuffle | shuffle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thump | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 booming | det |
| 12 | booming | booming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | sound | a thump and a shuffle | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thump=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go on | past | the booming | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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