The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 136
“Now what is this?” said Mowgli, bewildered, as the stones flew thicker.
Who acts: stones · What happens: be, say, bewilder, fly · To what, where: this · 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 (stones), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 what | advmod |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 said | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 this | cop |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bewildered | punct |
| 11 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 flew | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stones | det |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bewildered | conj |
| 17 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 flew | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bewilder | past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | fly | past | the stones | thick property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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