The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 157
Up till then he had not shown the shadow of a sign of astonishment or anything else.
Who acts: last · What happens: not show, shadow, sign · To what, where: shadow, sign, astonishment
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 (last), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 7 shown | advmod |
| 2 | till | till | ADP | _ | 3 then | case |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 shown | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shown | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shown | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 shown | advmod |
| 7 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shadow | det |
| 9 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shown | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sign | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sign | det |
| 12 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shadow | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 astonishment | case |
| 14 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sign | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 anything | cc |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 astonishment | conj |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 anything | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | past · perfect | last | the shadow of a sign of astonishment | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shadow=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | shadow | a sign of astonishment | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | sign | astonishment | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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