The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 3

In the other, the bulls and the young bulls snorted and stamped, but though they looked more imposing they were much less dangerous, for they had no calves to protect.

Who acts: bulls · What happens: snort, stamp, look, be, have, protect · To what, where: calves

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 (bulls), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 other	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 other	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snorted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 other	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bulls	det
6	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 snorted	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bulls	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bulls	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bulls	amod
10	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bulls	conj
11	snorted	snort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stamped	cc
13	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 snorted	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 looked	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 snorted	parataxis
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 imposing	advmod
20	imposing	imposing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looked	xcomp
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dangerous	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dangerous	cop
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 less	advmod
24	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 dangerous	advmod
25	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 imposing	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 had	case
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looked	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 calves	det
31	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 protect	mark
33	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 calves	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 snorted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	snort	past	the bulls and the young bulls		in the other	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in other=Theme
2	stamp	past	the bulls and the young bulls not said here			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	bulls = bull		imposing property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	bulls = bull		dangerous, less property	tree rules
5	have	past	bulls = bull	no calves		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient
6	protect	to-infinitive	bulls = bull not said here	no calves not said here		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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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