The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 28
They looked at one another and up and down, and they wondered.
Who acts: children · What happens: look, wonder
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 (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 up | cc |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 another | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 down | cc |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 up | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wondered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wondered | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wondered | nsubj |
| 13 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | children = child | at one another | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | children = child | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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