The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 161

At last--and Mother Wolf’s neck bristles lifted as the time came--Father Wolf pushed “Mowgli the Frog,” as they called him, into the center, where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.

Who acts: time, Father Wolf, frogs, Mowgli, pebbles · What happens: lift, come, push, call, sit, laugh · To what, where: neck, Mowgli, moonlight · 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 (time, Father Wolf, frogs, Mowgli), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pushed	advmod
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 lifted	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lifted	cc
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wolf	compound
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 neck	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Wolf	case
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifted	nsubj:pass
9	bristles	bristle	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lifted	aux:pass
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 last	conj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lifted	advcl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 pushed	punct
16	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Wolf	compound
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 pushed	nsubj
18	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Mowgli	punct
20	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 pushed	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Frog	det
22	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Mowgli	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Mowgli	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 Mowgli	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 called	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	nsubj
27	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pushed	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 center	punct
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 center	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 center	det
32	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sat	punct
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 sat	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sat	nsubj
36	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 center	acl:relcl
37	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 sat	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 playing	cc
39	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 laughing	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 pebbles	case
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 pebbles	det
42	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 playing	obl
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 glistened	nsubj
44	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 pebbles	acl
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 moonlight	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 moonlight	det
47	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 glistened	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	present · passive		Mother Wolf's neck				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past	the time					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	push	past	Father Wolf	Mowgli				vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mowgli=Theme
4	call	past	frogs = frog		Mowgli			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	sit	past	Mowgli					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	laugh	gerund	Mowgli not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	play	gerund	Mowgli not said here				with some pebbles	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pebble=Theme
8	glisten	participle	some pebbles			the moonlight		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location

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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