The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 144

Sea Catch sunk his head proudly between his fat shoulders and pretended to go to sleep for a few minutes, but all the time he was keeping a sharp lookout for a fight.

Who acts: Sea Catch, Catch · What happens: sink, pretend, go, sleep, keep · To what, where: head, sharp lookout

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 (Sea Catch, Catch), 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	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Catch	compound
2	Catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sunk	nsubj
3	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sunk	obj
6	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	3 sunk	advmod
7	between	between	ADP	_	10 shoulders	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoulders	nmod:poss
9	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shoulders	compound
10	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sunk	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pretended	cc
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sunk	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pretended	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sleep	mark
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 minutes	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 minutes	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 minutes	amod
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sleep	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 keeping	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 keeping	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 time	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keeping	obl:unmarked
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 keeping	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 keeping	aux
28	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pretended	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lookout	det
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lookout	amod
31	lookout	lookout	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keeping	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 fight	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 fight	det
34	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keeping	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sunk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	Sea Catch	Catch's head		between Catch's fat shoulders; proudly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	pretend	past	Sea Catch not said here				tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	Sea Catch not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sleep	to-infinitive	Sea Catch not said here		minute		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep	past · progressive	Catch	a sharp lookout	time	for a fight	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lookout=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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