The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 154

He had fallen twice into a wolf trap in his youth, and once he had been beaten and left for dead; so he knew the manners and customs of men.

Who acts: murderer · What happens: fall, beat, leave, know · To what, where: wolf trap, murderer, manners

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 (murderer), 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 fallen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fallen	aux
3	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 fallen	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 trap	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trap	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trap	compound
8	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fallen	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 youth	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 youth	nmod:poss
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trap	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beaten	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beaten	cc
14	once	once	SCONJ	_	18 beaten	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beaten	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beaten	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 beaten	aux:pass
18	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fallen	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 left	cc
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 beaten	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 dead	case
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 left	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 knew	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fallen	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 manners	det
28	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 knew	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 customs	cc
30	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 manners	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 men	case
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 customs	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	murderer		into a wolf trap in murderer's youth result; twice property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trap=Result
2	beat	past · perfect · passive		murderer		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	leave	participle			for dead	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for dead=Recipient
4	know	past	murderer	the manners and customs of men		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer manners=Stimulus

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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