The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 28
Mowgli turned and saw the great Python’s head swaying a foot above his own.
Who acts: Mowgli, head · What happens: turn, see, sway · To what, where: foot, own · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mowgli, head), 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 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Python | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Python | amod |
| 7 | Python | Python | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Python | case |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swaying | nsubj |
| 10 | swaying | sway | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 foot | det |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swaying | obj |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 own | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 own | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 foot | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Mowgli | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Mowgli not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sway | gerund | the great Python's head | a foot | Mowgli's own | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme |
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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