The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 81
“I saw no more than a big snake making foolish circles till the dark came.
Who acts: Baloo, big snake, dark · What happens: see, make, come · To what, where: more, foolish circles
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, big snake, dark), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 snake | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 snake | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 snake | amod |
| 9 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 snake | acl |
| 11 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 circles | amod |
| 12 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 making | obj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dark | det |
| 15 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 making | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | Baloo | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | gerund | a big snake not said here | foolish circles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circle=Product | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | the dark | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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