The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 95
A camel had blundered into it, and wet and angry as I was, I could not help laughing.
Who acts: I · What happens: blunder, be, not help, laugh · To what, where: camel, ghost
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 camel | det |
| 2 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blundered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blundered | aux |
| 4 | blundered | blunder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 blundered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wet | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wet | cc |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blundered | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 angry | cc |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wet | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 was | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 was | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 angry | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 help | advmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 blundered | parataxis |
| 20 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 help | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blundered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blunder | past · perfect · passive | a camel | ghost | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not help | could | I | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | laugh not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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