The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 163
Both beasts dropped down with a snort of disgust, for neither horse nor mule can bear to listen to an elephant’s voice.
Who acts: beasts, horse, disgust · What happens: drop down, bear, listen, snort
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 (beasts, horse, disgust), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 beasts | det |
| 2 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 dropped | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 snort | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snort | det |
| 7 | snort | snort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 disgust | case |
| 9 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snort | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bear | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 bear | mark |
| 12 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bear | nsubj |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 mule | cc |
| 15 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horse | conj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 bear | aux |
| 17 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dropped | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 listen | mark |
| 19 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bear | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 voice | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 elephant | det |
| 22 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 voice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 elephant | case |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 listen | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop down | past | both beasts | with a snort of disgust | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | can | neither horse nor mule | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | neither horse nor mule not said here | to a elephant's voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | snort | disgust | nom snort «communication intransitive»: of=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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