The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 25
“His face is all bruised today by thy--softness.
Who acts: softness · What happens: bruise · To what, where: face
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 (softness), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruised | punct |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bruised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bruised | aux:pass |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 bruised | advmod |
| 6 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bruised | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 softness | case |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 softness | nmod:poss |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 softness | punct |
| 11 | softness | softness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bruised | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bruise in a quote | present · passive | thy softness | Bagheera's face | today | all property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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