The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 12

Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.

Who acts: Mother, moon, cubs, Wolf · What happens: lie, drop, squeal, shine, live, tumble · To what, where: big gray nose, four tumbling, cubs, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, moon, cubs, Wolf), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 nose	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nose	amod
7	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nose	compound
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nose	acl
10	across	across	ADP	_	13 tumbling	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tumbling	nmod:poss
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 tumbling	nummod
13	tumbling	tumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 squealing	punct
15	squealing	squeal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lay	advcl
16	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 squealing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shone	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moon	det
20	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shone	nsubj
21	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 mouth	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mouth	det
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shone	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 cave	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cave	det
27	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mouth	nmod
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 lived	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lived	nsubj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 lived	advmod
31	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cave	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Mother			with Wolf's big gray nose	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	participle		Wolf's big gray nose not said here	Wolf's four tumbling		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across tumbling=Trajectory
3	squeal	gerund	Mother not said here	cubs			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cub=Theme
4	shine	past	the moon		the mouth of the cave		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	live	past	cubs = cub				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tumble		Wolf				nom tumbling «act intransitive»: poss=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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