The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 175
The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
Who acts: crowd, pots · What happens: part, beckon, lacquer, be, raise, look · To what, where: crowd, Mowgli, hut, wall, red lacquered bedstead, country fairs
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 (crowd, pots), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beckoned | nsubj |
| 3 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 crowd | acl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 woman | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parted | obl:agent |
| 7 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 beckoned | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hut | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beckoned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bedstead | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 was | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bedstead | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bedstead | det |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bedstead | amod |
| 18 | lacquered | lacquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bedstead | amod |
| 19 | bedstead | bedstead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hut | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chest | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 chest | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chest | amod |
| 23 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chest | amod |
| 24 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chest | compound |
| 25 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hut | appos |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 patterns | case |
| 27 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 patterns | amod |
| 28 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 patterns | amod |
| 29 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 chest | nmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 patterns | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chest | punct |
| 33 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 38 pots | det:predet |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 pots | det |
| 35 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 pots | nummod |
| 36 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pots | compound |
| 37 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pots | compound |
| 38 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beckoned | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 image | punct |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 image | det |
| 41 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pots | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 god | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 god | det |
| 44 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 god | amod |
| 45 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 image | nmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 alcove | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 alcove | det |
| 48 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 alcove | amod |
| 49 | alcove | alcove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 god | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 wall | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 wall | cc |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 wall | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 wall | det |
| 54 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beckoned | obl |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 glass | det |
| 56 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 glass | amod |
| 57 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 58 glass | amod |
| 58 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 wall | appos |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 sell | punct |
| 60 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 63 sell | case |
| 61 | as | as | ADP | _ | 60 such | fixed |
| 62 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 sell | nsubj |
| 63 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 glass | conj |
| 64 | at | at | ADP | _ | 67 fairs | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 fairs | det |
| 66 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 fairs | compound |
| 67 | fairs | fair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 63 sell | obl |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | participle | the crowd not said here | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | beckon | past | the crowd | Mowgli | crowd's hut and a red lacquered bedstead | the wall | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mowgli=Theme to hut=Recipient | ||
| 3 | lacquer | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | the crowd not said here | a red lacquered bedstead | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | sell | present | pots = pot | the country fairs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at fair=Asset | ||||
| 8 | image | a Hindu god in a little alcove | nom image «cognition 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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