The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 119
“It’s disgraceful,” he said, blowing out his nostrils.
Who acts: tail, beat · What happens: be, say, blow out · To what, where: nostrils · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, beat), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 disgraceful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disgraceful | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 disgraceful | cop |
| 4 | disgraceful | disgraceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 disgraceful | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 disgraceful | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blowing | punct |
| 10 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 blowing | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 13 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blowing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | tail | disgraceful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | beat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | blow out | gerund | beat not said here | beat's nostrils | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent nostril=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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