The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 136
Shere Khan’s ears lay flat back on his head, and he shut his eyes, for the blazing branch was very near.
Who acts: ears, man, blazing branch · What happens: lay, shut, be · To what, where: head, eyes
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 (ears, man, blazing branch), 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 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shere | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Shere | case |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 7 back | advmod |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shut | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shut | nsubj |
| 14 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shut | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 near | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 near | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 branch | det |
| 20 | blazing | blazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 branch | amod |
| 21 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 near | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 near | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 near | advmod |
| 24 | near | near | ADV | _ | 14 shut | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Shere's ears | Shere's head | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on head=Destination | ||||
| 2 | shut | past | man | man's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the blazing branch | near property | tree rules |
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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