The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 158

He paddled and scrambled about by his mother’s side, and learned to scuffle out of the way when his father was fighting with another seal, and the two rolled and roared up and down the slippery rocks.

Who acts: head, father, two · What happens: paddle, scramble, learn, scuffle, fight, roll · To what, where: way

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 (head, father, two), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paddled	nsubj
2	paddled	paddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 scrambled	cc
4	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paddled	conj
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 scrambled	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 side	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 side	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 mother	case
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scrambled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 learned	cc
13	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paddled	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 scuffle	mark
15	scuffle	scuffle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 learned	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 way	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scuffle	obl
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 fighting	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fighting	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fighting	aux
24	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 scuffle	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 seal	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 seal	det
27	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fighting	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rolled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rolled	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 two	det
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 rolled	nsubj
32	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paddled	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 roared	cc
34	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 rolled	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 roared	compound:prt
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 rocks	cc
37	down	down	ADP	_	40 rocks	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rocks	det
39	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 rocks	amod
40	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 roared	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paddled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	paddle	past	head			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	scramble	past	head not said here		by head's mother's side; about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
3	learn	past	head not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	scuffle	to-infinitive	head not said here	the way		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fight	past · progressive	head's father		with another seal	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with seal=Co-Agent
6	roll	past	the two			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	roar up	past	the two not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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