The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 51
Two Tails shuffled and squeaked.
Who acts: Two Tails · What happens: shuffle, squeak
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), 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 shuffled | nsubj |
| 3 | shuffled | shuffle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 squeaked | cc |
| 5 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shuffled | conj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shuffled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shuffle | participle | Two Tails | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | squeak | participle | Two Tails not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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