The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 35
All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked.
Who acts: Mowgli, branch, wolves · What happens: sit, tend, dip, see, look · To what, where: cave, fire pot, dry branches
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, branch, wolves), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | tending | tend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sat | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pot | compound |
| 12 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tending | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dipping | cc |
| 14 | dipping | dip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tending | conj |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 branches | amod |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dipping | obj |
| 17 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dipping | advcl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 looked | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Mowgli | the cave | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location | |||
| 2 | tend | gerund | Mowgli not said here | Mowgli's fire pot | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dip | gerund | Mowgli not said here | dry branches | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | branch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | look | past | wolves = wolf | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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