The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 69
“Now, you gentlemen were alarmed, I believe, when I trumpeted.”
Who acts: Billy · What happens: alarm, believe, trumpet · To what, where: you
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 (Billy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 believe | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 alarmed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 7 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 believe | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 alarmed | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 believe | nsubj |
| 10 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trumpeted | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 trumpeted | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 trumpeted | nsubj |
| 14 | trumpeted | trumpet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 believe | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 believe | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm in a quote | past · passive | you | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | present | Billy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | trumpet in a quote | past | Billy | 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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