The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 94
Little Vixen, my fox terrier, went out through the other side; and then there was a roaring and a grunting and bubbling, and I saw the tent cave in, as the pole snapped, and begin to dance about like a mad ghost.
Who acts: Little Vixen, I, pole · What happens: go out, be, see, snap, begin, dance · To what, where: other side, roaring, tent cave
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 (Little Vixen, I, pole), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Vixen | amod |
| 2 | Vixen | Vixen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 terrier | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 terrier | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 terrier | compound |
| 6 | terrier | terrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Vixen | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vixen | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 side | amod |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 roaring | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 was | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 roaring | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 roaring | det |
| 20 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grunting | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 grunting | det |
| 23 | grunting | grunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roaring | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bubbling | cc |
| 25 | bubbling | bubbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grunting | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saw | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 saw | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cave | det |
| 31 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cave | compound |
| 32 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADV | _ | 29 saw | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 snapped | punct |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 snapped | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 pole | det |
| 37 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 snapped | nsubj |
| 38 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 saw | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 begin | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 begin | cc |
| 41 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 snapped | ccomp |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 dance | mark |
| 43 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 begin | xcomp |
| 44 | about | about | ADV | _ | 43 dance | advmod |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 48 ghost | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 ghost | det |
| 47 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 ghost | amod |
| 48 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dance | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Little Vixen | the other side | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a roaring and a grunting and bubbling | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past | I | the tent cave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cave=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | snap | past | the pole | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | begin | infinitive | the pole not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | dance | to-infinitive | the pole not said here | like a mad ghost; about property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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