The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 22
Halfway up the hill he met Bagheera with the morning dew shining like moonstones on his coat.
Who acts: Mowgli, morning dew · What happens: meet, shine · To what, where: Bagheera
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, morning dew), 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 | Halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 6 met | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hill | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hill | det |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 dew | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dew | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dew | compound |
| 11 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 12 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 dew | acl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 moonstones | case |
| 14 | moonstones | moonstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shining | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 coat | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 coat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moonstones | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Mowgli | Bagheera | up the hill; with the morning dew; halfway property | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bagheera=Theme with dew=Instrument | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | the morning dew not said here | like moonstones on Mowgli's coat | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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