The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 167

The first time that Kotick went down to the sea a wave carried him out beyond his depth, and his big head sank and his little hind flippers flew up exactly as his mother had told him in the song, and if the next wave had not thrown him back again he would have drowned.

Who acts: first time, wave, big head, little hind flippers · What happens: go down, carry out, sink, fly up, tell, not throw back · To what, where: Kotick, mother, song, next wave · 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 (first time, wave, big head, little hind flippers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl:unmarked
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 went	nsubj
5	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl:relcl
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wave	det
12	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	nsubj
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 carried	compound:prt
16	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	18 depth	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 depth	nmod:poss
18	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sank	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sank	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 head	amod
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sank	nsubj
24	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flew	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 flippers	nmod:poss
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flippers	amod
28	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flippers	amod
29	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 flew	nsubj
30	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sank	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 flew	compound:prt
32	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	37 told	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 told	mark
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mother	nmod:poss
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 told	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 told	aux
37	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 flew	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 told	iobj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 song	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 song	det
41	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 told	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 thrown	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 thrown	cc
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 thrown	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 wave	det
46	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 wave	amod
47	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 thrown	nsubj:pass
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 thrown	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 thrown	advmod
50	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 carried	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 thrown	obj
52	back	back	ADV	_	50 thrown	advmod
53	again	again	ADV	_	50 thrown	advmod
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 drowned	nsubj:pass
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 drowned	aux
56	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 drowned	aux
57	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 thrown	parataxis
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the first time					to the sea; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	carry out	past	a wave	Kotick			time	beyond Kotick's depth	vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	sink	past	Kotick's big head						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fly up	past	Kotick's little hind flippers						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Kotick's mother	Kotick	the song		exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
6	not throw back a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the next wave			again		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme
7	drown	would · perfect · passive		Kotick					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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