The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 158
But now his eyes began to get bigger and bigger, and he picked up the reins on his horse’s neck and looked behind him.
Who acts: eyes, last · What happens: begin, get, pick up, look · To what, where: reins, neck
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 (eyes, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 began | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 began | advmod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 get | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bigger | cc |
| 10 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 bigger | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 picked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 picked | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 picked | nsubj |
| 14 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 picked | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reins | det |
| 17 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 picked | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 neck | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 picked | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looked | cc |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 picked | conj |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | last's eyes | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | last's eyes not said here | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | pick up | past | last | the reins | last's horse's neck | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Topic | |||
| 4 | look | past | last not said here | behind last | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=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.
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