The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 167
He turned on his heel and walked away with the Lone Wolf, and as he looked up at the stars he felt happy.
Who acts: Messua · What happens: turn on, walk away, look up, feel · To what, where: heel, stars
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 (Messua), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 turned | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heel | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heel | heel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walked | cc |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 walked | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Wolf | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 11 | Lone | Lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Wolf | amod |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 looked | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 stars | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stars | det |
| 21 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looked | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stars | acl:relcl |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 felt | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn on | past | Messua | Messua's heel | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heel=Patient | ||||
| 2 | walk away | past | Messua not said here | with the Lone Wolf; away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | Messua | at the stars | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | Messua | the stars not said here | happy property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=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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