The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 55
When he was not learning he sat out in the sun and slept, and ate and went to sleep again.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: not learn, sit out, sleep, eat, go · To what, where: sun
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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 learning | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 learning | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 learning | advmod |
| 5 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sat | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slept | cc |
| 13 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ate | cc |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ate | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sleep | mark |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 sleep | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not learn | past · progressive | Mowgli | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sit out | past | Mowgli | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | Mowgli not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | past | Mowgli not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past | Mowgli not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | again | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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