The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 101

Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow, Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!

Who acts: billow, you · What happens: meet, be, curl · To what, where: billow, soft pillow, ease

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (billow, you), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 meets	advmod
2	billow	billow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	nsubj
3	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 curl	advcl
4	billow	billow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pillow	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 pillow	advmod
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pillow	amod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 pillow	cop
9	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 pillow	nmod:poss
10	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 billow	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Ah	punct
12	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	3 meets	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flipperling	punct
14	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flipperling	amod
15	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flipperling	amod
16	flipperling	flipperling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ah	vocative
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 curl	punct
18	curl	curl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 ease	case
20	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 ease	nmod:poss
21	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 curl	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 curl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	meet	present	billow	billow and thy soft pillow			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billow=Co-Agent
2	is a	infinitive	billow not said here	thy soft pillow		then	tree rules
3	curl	imperative	you not said here		thy ease		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

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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