The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 48
Then he stopped suddenly, and I heard a little whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last.
Who acts: Rrrhha, I · What happens: stop, hear, know, find · To what, where: little whimper, dark, Vixen, me, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rrrhha, I), 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 | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 heard | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 whimper | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 whimper | amod |
| 11 | whimper | whimper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dark | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dark | det |
| 14 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 found | mark |
| 19 | Vixen | Vixen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 knew | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 found | iobj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 found | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Rrrhha | then | suddenly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | hear | past | I | a little whimper | the dark | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whimper=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | find | past · perfect · passive | Vixen | me | last | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme i=Attribute |
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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