The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 144
He came to the cave as the evening mist rose, and drew breath, and looked down the valley.
Who acts: Mowgli, evening mist · What happens: come, rise, draw, look down · To what, where: cave, breath, valley
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 (Mowgli, evening mist), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 cave | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cave | det |
| 5 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 rose | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mist | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mist | compound |
| 9 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drew | cc |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 valley | det |
| 20 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Mowgli | the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the evening mist | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | Mowgli not said here | breath | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look down | past | Mowgli not said here | the valley | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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