The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 57
“No one then is to be feared,” Baloo wound up, patting his big furry stomach with pride.
Who acts: Baloo · What happens: fear, wound up, pat · To what, where: one, big furry stomach
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 (Baloo), 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 | _ | 8 feared | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 one | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feared | aux:pass |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 feared | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feared | aux:pass |
| 8 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wound | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feared | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 feared | punct |
| 11 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wound | nsubj |
| 12 | wound | wound | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 wound | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 patting | punct |
| 15 | patting | pat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wound | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stomach | amod |
| 18 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stomach | amod |
| 19 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patting | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 pride | case |
| 21 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear in a quote | present · passive | no one | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | wound up | infinitive | Baloo | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pat | gerund | Baloo not said here | Baloo's big furry stomach | with pride | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stomach=Experiencer with pride=Instrument |
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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