The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 11
“Till the sides are higher than Shere Khan can jump,” shouted Mowgli.
Who acts: Shere, Mowgli · What happens: be, jump, shout · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shere, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 higher | punct |
| 2 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 4 sides | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sides | det |
| 4 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 higher | obl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 higher | cop |
| 6 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 jump | mark |
| 8 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 jump | nsubj |
| 9 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Shere | flat |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 jump | aux |
| 11 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shouted | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jump | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 jump | punct |
| 14 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 higher | conj |
| 15 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 shouted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 higher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | till the sides | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jump in a quote | can | Shere | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | Mowgli | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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