The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 80
The wolves dropped out of sight as soon as they saw the man coming.
Who acts: wolves, man · What happens: drop out, see, come · To what, where: sight, man
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 (wolves, man), 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 wolves | det |
| 2 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 dropped | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 saw | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 soon | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 man | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop out | past | the wolves | sight | soon property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | wolves = wolf | the man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | the man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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