The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 43
The Python dropped his head lightly for a minute on Mowgli’s shoulder.
Who acts: Python · What happens: drop · To what, where: head
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 (Python), 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 Python | det |
| 2 | Python | Python | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obj |
| 6 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 3 dropped | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 minute | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minute | det |
| 9 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shoulder | case |
| 11 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Mowgli | case |
| 13 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 minute | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | the Python | Python's head | minute | lightly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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