The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 29
It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding.
What happens: be, lie, disturb · To what, where: mud, good bedding
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lie | mark |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | csubj |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lie | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mud | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mud | det |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lie | obl |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 disturbed | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 disturbed | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 13 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lie | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bedding | case |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bedding | amod |
| 16 | bedding | bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disturbed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie | to-infinitive | the mud | quiet property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location | ||||
| 3 | disturb | to-infinitive · passive | good bedding | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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