The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 117
Mowgli thrust his dead branch into the fire till the twigs lit and crackled, and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves.
Who acts: Mowgli, twigs · What happens: thrust, light, crackle, whirl, cower · To what, where: dead branch, fire, branch, head
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mowgli, twigs), 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 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thrust | nsubj |
| 2 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 branch | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 branch | amod |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrust | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrust | obl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 lit | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 twigs | det |
| 11 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lit | nsubj |
| 12 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thrust | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 crackled | cc |
| 14 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lit | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whirled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 whirled | cc |
| 17 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thrust | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 whirled | obj |
| 19 | above | above | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whirled | obl |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 wolves | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wolves | det |
| 24 | cowering | cower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 wolves | amod |
| 25 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 whirled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | past | Mowgli | Mowgli's dead branch | the fire | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | |||
| 2 | light | past | the twigs | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | crackle | past | the twigs not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | whirl | past | Mowgli not said here | branch | Mowgli's head | among the cowering wolves | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme above head=Source among wolf=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | cower | gerund | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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