The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 44
After a long time there came back the drawling, sleepy snarl of a full-fed tiger just wakened.
Who acts: drawling, full fed tiger · What happens: come back, feed, waken, snarl · To what, where: full fed tiger
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 (drawling, full fed tiger), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 came | expl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 drawling | det |
| 9 | drawling | drawling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 snarl | punct |
| 11 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 snarl | amod |
| 12 | snarl | snarl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drawling | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tiger | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tiger | det |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tiger | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 full | punct |
| 17 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tiger | amod |
| 18 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snarl | nmod |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 wakened | advmod |
| 20 | wakened | waken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tiger | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the drawling | there | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | feed | participle | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | waken | participle | a full fed tiger not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | snarl | a full fed tiger | nom snarl «communication intransitive»: of=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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