The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 163
The animals went in two by two, The elephant and the battery mul’, and they all got into the Ark For to get out of the rain!
Who acts: animals · What happens: go, get, get out · To what, where: elephant, two, Ark, rain
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 (animals), 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 | 2 animals | det |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 two | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 two | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 elephant | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 elephant | det |
| 10 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mul | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mul | det |
| 13 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mul | compound |
| 14 | mul | mul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 elephant | conj |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 mul | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 they | det |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 Ark | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Ark | det |
| 23 | Ark | Ark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obl |
| 24 | For | for | ADP | _ | 26 get | case |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 got | ccomp |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 rain | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 rain | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rain | det |
| 30 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the animals | the elephant and the battery mul | two | by two | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in two=Location | ||
| 2 | get | past | animals = animal | the Ark | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get out | to-infinitive | animals = animal not said here | the rain | tree rules |
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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