The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 140
He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
Who acts: Flower · What happens: beat, whimper, whine · To what, where: Shere, head, tiger, agony
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 (Flower), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 beat | obj |
| 4 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Shere | flat |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beat | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 branch | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tiger | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tiger | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tiger | det |
| 14 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beat | parataxis |
| 15 | whimpered | whimper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tiger | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 whined | cc |
| 17 | whined | whine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 whimpered | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 agony | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 agony | det |
| 20 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whined | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fear | case |
| 22 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 agony | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | Flower | Shere | the head | with the branch | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shere=Patient with branch=Instrument | ||
| 2 | whimper | participle | the tiger not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | whine | participle | a agony of fear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in agony=Location |
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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