The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 154
This is one of the foolish tales they tell under the big tree at dusk.
Who acts: This, stones · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: one, foolish tales, big tree · 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tales | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tales | det |
| 6 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tales | amod |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tales | acl:relcl |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 dusk | case |
| 15 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | one | of the foolish tales | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | stones = stone | the foolish tales not said here | the big tree at dusk | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
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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