The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 97
It was sent home with shut mouth in silence, and there was no need of a second.
Who acts: need · What happens: send, be, need · To what, where: heart, silence, second
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 (need), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mouth | case |
| 6 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mouth | amod |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 silence | case |
| 9 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 need | det |
| 15 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 second | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 second | det |
| 18 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 need | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | heart | silence | with shut mouth; home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in silence=Destination | |||
| 2 | be | past | no need of a second | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | a second | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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