The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 17
“They never do what they set out to do.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: not do, set out, do
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 set | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | acl:relcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 set | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present | eyes = eye | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | set out in a quote | past | eyes = eye | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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