The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 10
The boy could climb almost as well as he could swim, and swim almost as well as he could run.
Who acts: boy · What happens: climb, swim, run
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climb | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | aux |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 as | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 climb | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 swim | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 swim | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 swim | aux |
| 11 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 as | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swim | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swim | cc |
| 14 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | conj |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 as | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 14 swim | advmod |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 run | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 run | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 run | aux |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 swim | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | could | the boy | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swim | could | boy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swim | present | the boy not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | could | boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/4/10/