The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 121
(They must have been twins.)
Who acts: fellows · What happens: be · To what, where: twins
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellows), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 twins | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 twins | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 twins | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 twins | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 twins | cop |
| 6 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 twins | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 twins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must · perfect | fellows = fellow | twins | 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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