The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 8
But Mowgli, as a man-cub, had to learn a great deal more than this.
Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: have, learn · To what, where: great deal
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 2 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cub | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 cub | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cub | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cub | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mowgli | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mowgli | punct |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 learn | mark |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 learn | obj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 deal | amod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 this | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 more | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mowgli | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | Mowgli not said here | a great deal | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Topic |
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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