The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 2

Then he grew angry but knew better than to struggle, and then he began to think.

Who acts: he · What happens: grow, know, struggle, begin, think

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 (he), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 grew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 knew	cc
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 knew	xcomp
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 struggle	mark
9	to	to	PART	_	10 struggle	mark
10	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 better	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 began	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 think	mark
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	he	then	angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	he not said here		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	struggle	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	he	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «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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