The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 134

Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and Father Wolf said to her gravely:

Who acts: Mother, Father Wolf · What happens: throw down, pant, say · To what, where: Wolf, gravely · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Father 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 threw	nsubj
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 threw	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 threw	compound:prt
6	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 threw	advcl
7	among	among	ADP	_	9 cubs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cubs	det
9	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 panting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
12	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Wolf	compound
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 gravely	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 gravely	nmod:poss
17	gravely	gravely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	Mother	Wolf			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
2	pant	gerund	Mother not said here			among the cubs	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Father Wolf		Wolf's gravely		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to gravely=Recipient

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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