The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 17
But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.
Who acts: Bagheera, wild honey · What happens: have, drip · To what, where: voice, tree
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 (Bagheera, wild honey), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 soft | advmod |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voice | amod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 honey | case |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 honey | amod |
| 10 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soft | obl |
| 11 | dripping | drip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 honey | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dripping | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 softer | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 softer | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 skin | det |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 softer | nsubj |
| 19 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 down | case |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 softer | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Bagheera | a voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drip | gerund | wild honey not said here | a tree | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from tree=Source |
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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