The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 64
But if they straggle to pick flowers or hunt lizards, they are sometimes carried off.
Who acts: cattle · What happens: straggle, pick, hunt, carry off · To what, where: flowers, lizards, cattle
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 (cattle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 straggle | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 straggle | nsubj |
| 4 | straggle | straggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pick | mark |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 straggle | xcomp |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pick | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 hunt | cc |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 straggle | conj |
| 10 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hunt | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 straggle | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | aux:pass |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 carried | advmod |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 carried | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | straggle a condition, not said to happen | present | cattle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pick | to-infinitive | cattle not said here | flowers | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hunt | present | cattle not said here | lizards | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry off | present · passive | cattle | sometimes property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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