The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 30
The bulls were turned, to the right this time, and crashed into the standing thicket.
What happens: turn, crash, stand · To what, where: bulls, standing thicket
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bulls | det |
| 2 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | aux:pass |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 right | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 right | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 right | det |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turned | xcomp |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 right | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crashed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crashed | cc |
| 13 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 thicket | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thicket | det |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 thicket | amod |
| 17 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crashed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · passive | the bulls | right property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | crash | past | into the standing thicket result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into thicket=Result | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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