The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 58
He took his place at the Council Rock, too, when the Pack met, and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf, the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes, and so he used to stare for fun.
Who acts: Mowgli, Pack, wolf · What happens: take, meet, discover, stare, force, drop · To what, where: place, Council Rock, wolf, eyes
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, Pack, wolf), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 place | nmod:poss |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Rock | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rock | det |
| 7 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Rock | compound |
| 8 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 met | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 met | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pack | det |
| 14 | Pack | Pack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 met | nsubj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 discovered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 discovered | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 discovered | expl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 discovered | nsubj |
| 20 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 stared | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 stared | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stared | nsubj |
| 24 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 discovered | advcl |
| 25 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 stared | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 wolf | case |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 wolf | det |
| 28 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stared | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 forced | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wolf | det |
| 31 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 forced | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 forced | aux:pass |
| 34 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 discovered | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 drop | mark |
| 36 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 forced | xcomp |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 drop | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 used | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 used | cc |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 used | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 used | nsubj |
| 43 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 stare | mark |
| 45 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 used | xcomp |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 fun | case |
| 47 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 stare | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Mowgli | Mowgli's place | the Council Rock | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at rock=Asset | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the Pack | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | discover | past | Mowgli | there | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stare a condition, not said to happen | past | Mowgli | at any wolf; hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wolf=Theme | ||||
| 5 | force | would · passive | the wolf | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | drop | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | Mowgli's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 7 | use | past | Mowgli | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | stare | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | for fun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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