The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 164
And he went to the cave where she lived with Father Wolf, and he cried on her coat, while the four cubs howled miserably.
Who acts: Mowgli, fire, four cubs · What happens: go, live, cry, howl · To what, where: cave, coat
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, fire, four cubs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 lived | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cave | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Wolf | case |
| 11 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Wolf | compound |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cried | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 coat | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 coat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 howled | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 howled | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cubs | det |
| 23 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 cubs | nummod |
| 24 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 howled | nsubj |
| 25 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cried | conj |
| 26 | miserably | miserably | ADV | _ | 25 howled | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Mowgli | the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | live | past | fire | with Father Wolf | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wolf=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Mowgli | fire's coat | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coat=Location | ||||
| 4 | howl | past | the four cubs | miserably property | 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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