The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 69
Mowgli looked at Bagheera to see if the Panther was angry too, and Bagheera’s eyes were as hard as jade stones.
Who acts: Mowgli, Panther, eyes · What happens: look, see, be
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 (Mowgli, Panther, eyes), 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 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Bagheera | case |
| 4 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | advcl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 angry | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Panther | det |
| 9 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 angry | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 angry | cop |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 see | advcl |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 angry | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hard | cc |
| 15 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Bagheera | case |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hard | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hard | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 hard | advmod |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 stones | case |
| 22 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stones | compound |
| 23 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hard | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Mowgli | at Bagheera | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bagheera=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the Panther | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Bagheera's eyes | as jade stones; hard 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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