The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 125
Gray Brother trotted off and dropped into a hole.
Who acts: Gray · What happens: trot off, drop · To what, where: hole
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gray), 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 | Gray | Gray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trotted | nsubj |
| 2 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gray | flat |
| 3 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 trotted | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dropped | cc |
| 6 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 trotted | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hole | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot off | past | Gray | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drop | participle | Gray not said here | a hole | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hole=Trajectory |
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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