The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 88
Even Baloo, half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace, could not help chuckling as he heard the Black Panther asking for help.
Who acts: Baloo, Black Panther · What happens: smother, not help, chuckle, hear, ask · To what, where: Baloo, Black Panther
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 (Baloo, Black Panther), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 Baloo | advmod |
| 2 | Baloo | Baloo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 help | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smothered | punct |
| 4 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 smothered | advmod |
| 5 | smothered | smother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Baloo | acl |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 monkeys | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monkeys | det |
| 8 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smothered | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 edge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 edge | det |
| 11 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 monkeys | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 terrace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 terrace | det |
| 14 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 edge | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Baloo | punct |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 help | advmod |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | chuckling | chuckle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 help | xcomp |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 heard | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 chuckling | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Panther | det |
| 24 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Panther | compound |
| 25 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obj |
| 26 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 Panther | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 help | case |
| 28 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 asking | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smother | participle | Baloo not said here | under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace; half property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not help | could | Baloo | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | chuckle not said to happen | gerund | Baloo not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | Baloo | the Black Panther | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer panther=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the Black Panther not said here | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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