The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 23
Two Tails stamped his foot till the iron ring on it jingled.
Who acts: Two Tails, foot · What happens: stamp, jingle · To what, where: foot
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 (Two Tails, foot), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Tails | nummod |
| 2 | Tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stamped | nsubj |
| 3 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 foot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stamped | obj |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 ring | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 8 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ring | amod |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stamped | obl |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 jingled | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 jingled | nsubj |
| 12 | jingled | jingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stamped | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | Two Tails | Billy's foot | till the iron ring | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | jingle | past | foot | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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