The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 59
At other times he would pick the long thorns out of the pads of his friends, for wolves suffer terribly from thorns and burs in their coats.
Who acts: Mowgli, wolves · What happens: pick, suffer · To what, where: long thorns, pads, thorns
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, wolves), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pick | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pick | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pick | aux |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thorns | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thorns | amod |
| 9 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pick | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pads | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pads | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pads | det |
| 13 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pick | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 friends | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pads | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 suffer | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 suffer | mark |
| 19 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suffer | nsubj |
| 20 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pick | conj |
| 21 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 20 suffer | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 thorns | case |
| 23 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suffer | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 burs | cc |
| 25 | burs | bur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 thorns | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 coats | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 coats | nmod:poss |
| 28 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suffer | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | would | Mowgli | the long thorns | the pads of Mowgli's friends | time | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Patient | ||
| 2 | suffer | present | wolves | thorns and burs | in wolves's coats; terribly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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