The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 131
I walked out of my lines to get a little peace and quiet here.”
Who acts: I · What happens: walk out, get · To what, where: lines, little peace
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 lines | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lines | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lines | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 walked | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 peace | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 peace | amod |
| 11 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 quiet | cc |
| 13 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peace | conj |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 get | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk out | past | I | my lines | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | a little peace and quiet | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peace=Stimulus |
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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