The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 59
Baloo and Bagheera stood still as stone, growling in their throats, their neck hair bristling, and Mowgli watched and wondered.
Who acts: Baloo, neck hair, Mowgli · What happens: stand, growl, bristle, watch, wonder
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 (Baloo, neck hair, Mowgli), 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 | Baloo | baloo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Bagheera | cc |
| 3 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Baloo | conj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 growling | punct |
| 9 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 throats | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 throats | nmod:poss |
| 12 | throats | throat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 growling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hair | punct |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hair | compound |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throats | nmod |
| 17 | bristling | bristle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 hair | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 watched | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 watched | cc |
| 20 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 watched | nsubj |
| 21 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wondered | cc |
| 23 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 watched | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Baloo and Bagheera | still | as stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | growl | gerund | Baloo and Bagheera not said here | in Bagheera's throats throats's neck hair | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in throat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bristle | gerund | throats's neck hair not said here | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | watch | past | Mowgli | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | past | Mowgli not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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