The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 48
Baloo clasped his paws over his ears and rolled to and fro moaning.
Who acts: Baloo · What happens: clasp, roll, moan · To what, where: paws, ears
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 (Baloo), 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 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 clasped | nsubj |
| 2 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 paws | nmod:poss |
| 4 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clasped | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 ears | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clasped | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rolled | cc |
| 9 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 clasped | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 rolled | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 moaning | cc |
| 12 | fro | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 moaning | mark |
| 13 | moaning | moan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rolled | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | Baloo | Mowgli's paws | Mowgli's ears | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme | |||
| 2 | roll | participle | Baloo not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | moan | gerund | Baloo not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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