The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 116
A fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away, taking Mowgli with them.
Who acts: fresh shower, two · What happens: come down, trot away, take · To what, where: heads, Mowgli
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 (fresh shower, two), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shower | det |
| 2 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shower | amod |
| 3 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 heads | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heads | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trotted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 two | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 trotted | nsubj |
| 12 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 trotted | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taking | punct |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 trotted | advcl |
| 16 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | a fresh shower | People's heads | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location | |||
| 2 | trot away | past | the two | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the two not said here | Mowgli | with People | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mowgli=Destination |
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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