The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 11
“It is red stuff that soaks into the ground and smells.”
Who acts: blood, red stuff · What happens: be, soak · To what, where: red stuff, ground
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, red stuff), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuff | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuff | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuff | cop |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stuff | amod |
| 5 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 soaks | nsubj |
| 7 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuff | acl:relcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soaks | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smells | cc |
| 12 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ground | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuff | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | blood | red stuff | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | soak in a quote | present | red stuff | the ground and smells | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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