The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 12
The troop-horse gave a kick and a bound and a snort.
Who acts: troop horse · What happens: give · To what, where: kick
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 (troop horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 2 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horse | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 troop | punct |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kick | det |
| 7 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bound | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bound | det |
| 10 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kick | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 snort | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snort | det |
| 13 | snort | snort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kick | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the troop horse | a kick and a bound and a snort | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/12/