The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 176
Mother Wolf walked stiffly from the cave with the cubs behind her, and her eyes glowed as she saw the skin.
Who acts: Mother, eyes · What happens: walk, glow, see · To what, where: cave, skin
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 (Mother, eyes), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cave | det |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cubs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cubs | det |
| 10 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cave | nmod |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cubs | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 glowed | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 glowed | nsubj |
| 17 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 saw | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 glowed | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 skin | det |
| 22 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Mother | the cave with the cubs behind trot | stiffly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cave=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | glow | past | Mother's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Mother | the skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/9/176/