The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 67
Baloo’s big paw scooped Mowgli off Bagheera’s back, and as the boy lay between the big fore-paws he could see the Bear was angry.
Who acts: big paw, paw, Bear · What happens: scoop, lie, see, be · To what, where: Mowgli, back, big fore paws · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (big paw, paw, Bear), 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 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 paw | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Baloo | case |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 paw | amod |
| 4 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scooped | nsubj |
| 5 | scooped | scoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scooped | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 8 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Bagheera | case |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scooped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 boy | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scooped | parataxis |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 paws | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 paws | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 paws | amod |
| 20 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paws | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fore | punct |
| 22 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lay | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lay | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Bear | det |
| 27 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 angry | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 angry | cop |
| 29 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 see | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop | past | Baloo's big paw | Mowgli | Bagheera's back | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mowgli=Theme off back=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the big fore paws | as the boy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between paw=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | could | paw | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the Bear | angry property | 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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