The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 128
Every beast lives in deadly fear of it, and invents a hundred ways of describing it.
Who acts: beast, hundred ways · What happens: live, invent, describe, fear · To what, where: deadly fear, hundred ways, beast, fear
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, hundred ways), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 beast | det |
| 2 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 5 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fear | amod |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fear | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 invents | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 invents | cc |
| 11 | invents | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lives | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hundred | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 ways | nummod |
| 14 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 invents | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 describing | mark |
| 16 | describing | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 ways | acl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 describing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | every beast | deadly fear of fear | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fear=Location | ||||
| 2 | invent | present | every beast not said here | hundred ways | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Result | ||||
| 3 | describe | gerund | hundred ways not said here | beast | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fear | fear | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/128/