The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 15

He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.

Who acts: Augrh, little shadow, Good luck · What happens: go, spring down, cross, whine · To what, where: hill, threshold, O Chief · 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 (Augrh, little shadow, Good luck), 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	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spring	mark
5	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 spring	compound:prt
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spring	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 crossed	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shadow	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shadow	amod
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crossed	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 tail	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tail	det
14	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tail	amod
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shadow	nmod
16	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 threshold	det
18	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crossed	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 whined	cc
20	whined	whine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 crossed	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
23	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 luck	amod
24	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	nsubj
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 whined	ccomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 go	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Chief	punct
29	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Chief	compound
30	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Wolves	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Wolves	det
33	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Chief	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Augrh			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spring down	to-infinitive	Augrh not said here	hill		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme
3	cross	past	a little shadow with a bushy tail	the threshold		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient
4	whine	past	a little shadow with a bushy tail not said here			vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go in a quote	infinitive	Good luck	O Chief of the Wolves	with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/1/15/