The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 32

Tabaqui sat still, rejoicing in the mischief that he had made, and then he said spitefully:

Who acts: Tabaqui · What happens: sit, rejoice, make, say · To what, where: mischief · 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 (Tabaqui), 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	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rejoicing	punct
5	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mischief	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mischief	det
8	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rejoicing	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 made	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 rejoicing	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 said	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
18	spitefully	spitefully	ADV	_	17 said	advmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Tabaqui		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rejoice	gerund	Tabaqui not said here	the mischief			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	past · perfect	Tabaqui				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Tabaqui		then	spitefully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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