The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 153

And she sang the low, crooning seal song that all the mother seals sing to their babies:

Who acts: sun, mother seals · What happens: sing, croon · To what, where: low, seal song, babies

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 (sun, mother seals), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 sang	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 low	det
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sang	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crooning	punct
7	crooning	croon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sang	advcl
8	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 song	compound
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crooning	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sing	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 seals	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 seals	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seals	compound
14	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sing	nsubj
15	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 song	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 babies	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 babies	nmod:poss
18	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sing	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	sun	the low		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location low=Theme
2	croon speech: other	gerund	sun not said here	seal song		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic
3	sing speech: express	present	all mother seals	seal song	things's babies	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to baby=Recipient

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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