The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 145
Then the cavalry came up, to the beautiful cavalry canter of “Bonnie Dundee,” and Vixen cocked her ear where she sat on the dog-cart.
Who acts: cavalry, Vixen, Bonnie Dundee · What happens: come up, cock, sit, canter · To what, where: beautiful cavalry canter, ear, dog cart
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 (cavalry, Vixen, Bonnie Dundee), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cavalry | det |
| 3 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 canter | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 canter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 canter | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 canter | amod |
| 10 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 canter | compound |
| 11 | canter | canter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Dundee | case |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dundee | punct |
| 14 | Bonnie | Bonnie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Dundee | compound |
| 15 | Dundee | Dundee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 canter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dundee | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 canter | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cocked | cc |
| 19 | Vixen | Vixen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cocked | nsubj |
| 20 | cocked | cock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ear | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cocked | obj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 sat | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cocked | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 cart | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cart | det |
| 28 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cart | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 dog | punct |
| 30 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the cavalry | the beautiful cavalry canter of Bonnie Dundee | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to canter=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cock | past | Vixen | Vixen's ear | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | Vixen | the dog cart | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cart=Location | ||||
| 4 | canter | Bonnie Dundee | nom canter «act intransitive»: of=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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