The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 156

The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him carefully, and return to his place on noiseless feet.

Who acts: cubs, mothers, senior wolf · What happens: tumble, sit, go, look, return · To what, where: each, cub, noiseless feet

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 (cubs, mothers, senior 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cubs	det
2	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tumbled	nsubj
3	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 tumbled	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 center	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 center	det
9	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tumbled	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 circle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 circle	det
12	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 center	nmod
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 sat	advmod
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mothers	nmod:poss
15	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sat	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fathers	cc
17	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mothers	conj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 circle	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 go	cc
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 go	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 again	cc
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 now	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wolf	det
25	senior	senior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wolf	amod
26	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tumbled	parataxis
29	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	up	up	ADP	_	33 cub	case
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 cub	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cub	det
33	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 look	punct
35	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 go	parataxis
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 look	obl
38	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	35 look	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 return	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 return	cc
41	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 look	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 place	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 place	nmod:poss
44	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 return	obl
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 feet	case
46	noiseless	noiseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 feet	amod
47	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 return	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	tumble	past	the cubs	each		in the center of the circle	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in center=Attribute
2	sit	past	cubs's mothers and fathers				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	would	a senior wolf	a cub	now	quietly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up cub=Initial_Location
4	look	infinitive				at Father; carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5	return	infinitive		noiseless feet		to Father's place result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result

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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