The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 41
Now there is a cloud coming to cover that moon.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: be, come, cover · To what, where: moon
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 (cloud), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloud | det |
| 5 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 cloud | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cover | mark |
| 8 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 coming | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 moon | det |
| 10 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cover | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a cloud | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | a cloud not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cover | to-infinitive | a cloud not said here | that moon | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moon=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/6/41/