The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 95
The tiger has just fed, or he would have gone twenty miles by this time.
Who acts: stupidity · What happens: feed, go · To what, where: tiger, twenty miles
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 (stupidity), 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 tiger | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fed | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 fed | advmod |
| 5 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 gone | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gone | aux |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 fed | conj |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 miles | nummod |
| 13 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gone | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present · perfect · passive | the tiger | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | go | would · perfect | stupidity | twenty miles | time | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=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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