The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 85

Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk--as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf’s cave at night.

Who acts: front, naked brown baby · What happens: hold on, stand, walk, dimple, come · To what, where: naked brown baby, front, little atom, cave

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 (front, naked brown baby), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	3 front	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 front	case
3	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 front	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 holding	punct
7	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 front	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 holding	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 branch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 branch	det
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 branch	amod
12	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holding	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 front	punct
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 baby	det
16	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 baby	amod
17	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 baby	amod
18	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 walk	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 walk	aux
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 walk	advmod
22	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 baby	acl:relcl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 soft	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 soft	case
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stood	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dimpled	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 dimpled	mark
28	dimpled	dimple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 soft	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 atom	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 atom	amod
31	atom	atom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dimpled	obj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 came	advmod
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dimpled	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 cave	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wolf	det
37	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cave	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 wolf	case
39	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 night	case
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cave	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	gerund	front of thing not said here				by a low branch	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by branch=Location
2	stand	past		a naked brown baby	front of thing			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in front=Destination
3	walk	could	a naked brown baby					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dimple	participle		a little atom				tree rules
5	come	past			a wolf's cave at night	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_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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