The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 14
A black shadow dropped down into the circle.
Who acts: black shadow · What happens: drop down · To what, where: circle
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 (black shadow), 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 | 3 shadow | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shadow | amod |
| 3 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 dropped | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 circle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 circle | det |
| 8 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop down | past | a black shadow | the circle | down property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into circle=Trajectory |
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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