The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 37
Then Mowgli went to the Council, still laughing.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: go, laugh · To what, where: Council
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Council | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Council | det |
| 6 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughing | punct |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 laughing | advmod |
| 9 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Mowgli | the Council | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to council=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | Mowgli not said here | still | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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