The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 154
So he threw back his long hair and frowned at the crowd.
Who acts: ape · What happens: throw back, frown · To what, where: long hair, crowd
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ape), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hair | amod |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 frowned | cc |
| 9 | frowned | frown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 threw | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 crowd | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crowd | det |
| 12 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frowned | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw back | past | ape | ape's long hair | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | frown | participle | ape not said here | the crowd | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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