The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 169
He is thinner, but he has the very look of my boy.”
Who acts: Arre · What happens: be, have · To what, where: look
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 (Arre), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinner | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinner | cop |
| 3 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 has | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinner | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 look | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 look | advmod |
| 10 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 boy | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 boy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinner | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Arre | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Arre | the look of my boy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=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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