The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 90
But one night a man popped his head in and shouted, “Get out, quick!
Who acts: man · What happens: pop, shout, get out · To what, where: head · 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 (man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 popped | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 night | nummod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 popped | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 popped | nsubj |
| 6 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 popped | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 popped | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shouted | cc |
| 11 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 popped | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Get | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Get | punct |
| 14 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 shouted | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 Get | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quick | punct |
| 17 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Get | xcomp |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 popped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop | past | a man | camp's head | night | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | a man not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get out in a quote | infinitive | out, quick property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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