The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 89
My tent lay far away from the camel lines, and I thought it was safe.
Who acts: tent, I · What happens: lie, think, be · 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 (tent, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tent | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 away | advmod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 lines | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lines | det |
| 8 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lines | compound |
| 9 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 away | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 safe | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 safe | cop |
| 16 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | My tent | away property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | tent | safe property | tree rules |
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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