The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 39
Bagheera lay close to Mowgli, and the fire pot was between Mowgli’s knees.
Who acts: Bagheera, fire pot · What happens: lie, be
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 (Bagheera, fire pot), 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 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Mowgli | case |
| 5 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 close | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knees | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knees | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pot | compound |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knees | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 knees | cop |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 knees | case |
| 13 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 knees | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Mowgli | case |
| 15 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Bagheera | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the fire pot | between Mowgli's knees | tree rules |
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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