The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 145
The cubs were out, but Mother Wolf, at the back of the cave, knew by his breathing that something was troubling her frog.
Who acts: cubs, Mother Wolf, something, cub · What happens: be out, know, trouble, breathe · To what, where: frog
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 (cubs, Mother Wolf, something, cub), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cubs | det |
| 2 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 were | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 7 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wolf | compound |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 back | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 back | det |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Wolf | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Wolf | punct |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 were | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 breathing | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 breathing | nmod:poss |
| 20 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 troubling | mark |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 troubling | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 troubling | aux |
| 24 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 breathing | acl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 frog | nmod:poss |
| 26 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 troubling | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be out | past | the cubs | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | Mother Wolf | by cub's breathing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | trouble | past · progressive | something | mist's frog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus frog=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | breathe | cub | nom breathing «act intransitive»: poss=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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