The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 104
And so they ran, stammering with terror, to the walls and the roofs of the houses, and Baloo drew a deep breath of relief.
Who acts: monkeys, Baloo · What happens: run, stammer, draw · To what, where: walls, deep breath
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkeys, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stammering | punct |
| 6 | stammering | stammer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ran | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 terror | case |
| 8 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stammering | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walls | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 walls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 walls | det |
| 12 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stammering | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 roofs | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 roofs | det |
| 15 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 walls | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 houses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 houses | det |
| 18 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 roofs | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drew | cc |
| 21 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 drew | nsubj |
| 22 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 breath | det |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 breath | amod |
| 25 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drew | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 relief | case |
| 27 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 breath | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | monkeys = monkey | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stammer speech: other | gerund | monkeys = monkey not said here | the walls and the roofs of the houses | with terror | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wall=Recipient | |||
| 3 | draw | past | Baloo | a deep breath of relief | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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