The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 66
Now, where has that nasty little beast gone to?”
Who acts: that · What happens: have, beast, go · To what, where: nasty little beast
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 (that), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 has | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 has | advmod |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 beast | nsubj |
| 6 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beast | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beast | amod |
| 8 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beast | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 gone | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beast | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | participle | nasty little beast not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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