The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 31
Teacher of the Law--cub-beater--a mile of that rolling to and fro would burst thee open.
Who acts: mile, Teacher · What happens: roll, fro, burst · To what, where: thee
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 (mile, Teacher), 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 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Law | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Law | det |
| 4 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Teacher | nmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 beater | punct |
| 6 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beater | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 cub | punct |
| 8 | beater | beater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Teacher | conj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 mile | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mile | det |
| 11 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beater | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 mile | nmod |
| 14 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 mile | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 rolling | fixed |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fro | cc |
| 17 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rolling | conj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 burst | aux |
| 19 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 burst | obj |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 burst | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | gerund | a mile of that not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | a mile of that not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | burst | would | Teacher of the Law and cub beater | thee | open property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme |
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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