The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 95
“He has hidden for a month to throw thee off thy guard.
Who acts: bristle · What happens: hide, throw off · To what, where: thee
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 (bristle), 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 | _ | 4 hidden | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hidden | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hidden | aux |
| 4 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 month | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 month | det |
| 7 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hidden | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 throw | mark |
| 9 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hidden | advcl |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 throw | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 throw | compound:prt |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 guard | nmod:poss |
| 13 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throw | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide in a quote | present · perfect | bristle | month | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw off in a quote | to-infinitive | bristle not said here | thee | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination guard=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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