The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 105
His fur was much thicker than Bagheera’s, but he had suffered sorely in the fight.
Who acts: fur, Baloo · What happens: be, suffer · To what, where: fight
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 (fur, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fur | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thicker | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thicker | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 thicker | advmod |
| 5 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 Bagheera | case |
| 7 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thicker | obl |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Bagheera | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffered | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 suffered | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 suffered | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffered | aux |
| 13 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 thicker | conj |
| 14 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 13 suffered | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fight | det |
| 17 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thicker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Baloo's fur | than Bagheera; thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suffer | past · perfect | Baloo | the fight | sorely property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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