The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 180
She touched his foot, and it was almost as hard as horn.
Who acts: talking, name · What happens: touch, be · To what, where: foot
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 (talking, name), 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 touched | nsubj |
| 2 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 foot | nmod:poss |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 touched | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hard | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hard | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hard | cop |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 touched | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 horn | case |
| 13 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hard | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | talking | Mowgli's foot | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | name | as horn; almost, hard property | tree rules |
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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