The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 90

A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if necessary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf’s jaws closed right on the child’s back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.

Who acts: tooth, baby · What happens: accustom, move, break, close, not scratch, lay down · To what, where: Wolf, own cubs, egg, jaws, skin, cubs

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 (tooth, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 necessary	nsubj
3	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Wolf	acl
4	to	to	SCONJ	_	5 moving	mark
5	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 accustomed	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cubs	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cubs	amod
8	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 moving	obj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 necessary	aux
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 necessary	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 necessary	mark
12	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mouth	punct
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 necessary	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 egg	det
16	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mouth	obj
17	without	without	SCONJ	_	18 breaking	mark
18	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 necessary	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 breaking	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 closed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 closed	cc
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 closed	mark
23	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Wolf	compound
24	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 jaws	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 Wolf	case
26	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 closed	nsubj:pass
27	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 necessary	parataxis
28	right	right	ADV	_	27 closed	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 child	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 child	det
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ’s	obl
32	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 closed	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	38 scratched	advmod
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 scratched	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tooth	det
36	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 scratched	nsubj
37	even	even	ADV	_	38 scratched	advmod
38	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ’s	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 skin	det
40	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 scratched	obj
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 laid	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 laid	nsubj
43	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 scratched	advcl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 laid	obj
45	down	down	ADP	_	43 laid	compound:prt
46	among	among	ADP	_	48 cubs	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 cubs	det
48	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 laid	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accustom	participle		a Wolf not said here			tree rules
2	move	gerund		baby's own cubs			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cub=Theme
3	break	gerund		egg			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
4	close	participle · passive		Father Wolf's jaws		right property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	not scratch	past	a tooth	the skin			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
6	lay down	past	baby	skin	the cubs		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme among cub=Destination

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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