The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 105

Limmershin, the Winter Wren, told me the tale when he was blown on to the rigging of a steamer going to Japan, and I took him down into my cabin and warmed and fed him for a couple of days till he was fit to fly back to St. Paul’s again.

Who acts: Limmershin, steamer, I · What happens: tell, blow, go, take down, warm, feed · To what, where: tale, me, Limmershin, rigging, Japan, cabin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Limmershin, steamer, I), 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	Limmershin	Limmershin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Wren	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wren	det
4	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wren	compound
5	Wren	Wren	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Limmershin	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Limmershin	punct
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tale	det
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 blown	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 blown	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 blown	aux:pass
14	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tale	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 rigging	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 rigging	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rigging	det
18	rigging	rigging	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blown	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 steamer	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 steamer	det
21	steamer	steamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rigging	nmod
22	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 steamer	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Japan	case
24	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 going	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	obj
30	down	down	ADP	_	28 took	compound:prt
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 cabin	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 cabin	nmod:poss
33	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 warmed	cc
35	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 took	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fed	cc
37	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 took	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fed	obj
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 couple	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 couple	det
41	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fed	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 days	case
43	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 couple	nmod
44	till	till	SCONJ	_	47 fit	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 fit	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 fit	cop
47	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fed	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 fly	mark
49	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 fit	xcomp
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 fly	advmod
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 Paul	case
52	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Paul	nmod:desc
53	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 back	obl
54	’s	's	PART	_	53 Paul	case
55	again	again	ADV	_	49 fly	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Limmershin	the tale	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tale=Topic
2	blow	past · passive		Limmershin		the rigging of a steamer			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
3	go	gerund	a steamer not said here			Japan			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to japan=Initial_Location
4	take down	past	I	Limmershin		my cabin			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	warm	past	I not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	feed	past	I not said here		Limmershin			for a couple of days	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	is	past	Limmershin					fit property	tree rules
8	fly	to-infinitive	Limmershin not said here				again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: 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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