The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 176
She gave him a long drink of milk and some bread, and then she laid her hand on his head and looked into his eyes; for she thought perhaps that he might be her real son come back from the jungle where the tiger had taken him.
Who acts: crowd, Mowgli, real son · What happens: give, lay, look, think, be, come back · To what, where: long drink, Mowgli, hand, head, real son, jungle
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, Mowgli, real son), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 drink | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drink | amod |
| 6 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 milk | case |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drink | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bread | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 bread | det |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 milk | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laid | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 laid | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laid | nsubj |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 looked | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 thought | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 31 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 38 son | advmod |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 son | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 son | nsubj |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 son | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 son | cop |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 son | nmod:poss |
| 37 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 son | amod |
| 38 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | nsubj |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 thought | parataxis |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 come | advmod |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 jungle | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 jungle | det |
| 43 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | obl |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 48 taken | advmod |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 tiger | det |
| 46 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 taken | aux |
| 48 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 jungle | acl:relcl |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 taken | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | crowd | a long drink of milk and some bread | Mowgli | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | past | crowd | crowd's hand | Mowgli's head | then | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on head=Destination | ||
| 3 | look | past | crowd not said here | into Mowgli's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | crowd | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | might | Mowgli | crowd's real son | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | come back | present | crowd's real son | the jungle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from jungle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | take | past · perfect · passive | the tiger | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
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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