The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 57

The kites have come down to see it.

Who acts: kites · What happens: come down, see · To what, where: strength

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 (kites), 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	2 kites	det
2	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	present · perfect	the kites					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the kites not said here	strength					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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