The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 53
That happened to be the least ruined of any, and the big snake was delayed awhile before he could find a way up the stones.
Who acts: That, snake · What happens: happen, ruin, delay, find · To what, where: big snake, way
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 (That, snake), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ruined | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ruined | aux:pass |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ruined | det |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 ruined | advmod |
| 7 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 happened | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 any | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 ruined | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 delayed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 delayed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snake | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snake | amod |
| 14 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 delayed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 delayed | aux:pass |
| 16 | delayed | delay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 17 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 16 delayed | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 delayed | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 stones | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stones | det |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 find | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | That | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ruin | to-infinitive · passive | That not said here | of any | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | delay | past · passive | the big snake | awhile property | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | find | could | snake | a way | up the stones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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