The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 37
Mowgli nodded and blinked, and said “Yes” when they asked him a question, and his head spun with the noise.
Who acts: Mowgli, speakers, head · What happens: nod, blink, say, ask, spin · To what, where: question, Mowgli · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mowgli, speakers, head), 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 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nodded | nsubj |
| 2 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 blinked | cc |
| 4 | blinked | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nodded | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nodded | conj |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Yes | punct |
| 9 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Yes | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 asked | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 question | det |
| 16 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spun | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spun | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spun | nsubj |
| 21 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 nodded | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 noise | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 noise | det |
| 24 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spun | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | Mowgli | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | blink | past | Mowgli not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mowgli not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | speakers = speaker | a question | Mowgli | tree rules | |||
| 5 | spin | participle | Mowgli's head | with the noise | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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