The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 86
He fumbled in his waist cloth for flint and steel, and stooped down to singe Shere Khan’s whiskers.
Who acts: Khanhiwara · What happens: fumble, stoop down, singe · To what, where: waist cloth, whiskers
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 (Khanhiwara), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fumbled | nsubj |
| 2 | fumbled | fumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cloth | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cloth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloth | compound |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fumbled | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 flint | case |
| 8 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloth | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 steel | cc |
| 10 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flint | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stooped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stooped | cc |
| 13 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fumbled | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 stooped | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 singe | mark |
| 16 | singe | singe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stooped | xcomp |
| 17 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shere | flat |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Shere | case |
| 20 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 singe | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fumble | past | Khanhiwara | Khanhiwara's waist cloth for flint and steel | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cloth=Location | ||||
| 2 | stoop down | past | Khanhiwara not said here | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | singe | to-infinitive | Khanhiwara not said here | Shere's whiskers | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient |
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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