The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 1

After that, he learned to lie in a beach pool and let the wash of the waves just cover him and lift him up while he paddled, but he always kept his eye open for big waves that might hurt.

Who acts: he, wash, big waves · What happens: learn, lie, let, cover, lift up, paddle · To what, where: beach pool, wash, him, eye

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, wash, big waves), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 learned	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learned	nsubj
5	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learned	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 pool	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pool	det
10	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pool	compound
11	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lie	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wash	det
15	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 waves	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 waves	det
18	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cover	obl
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 cover	advmod
20	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wash	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cover	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lift	cc
23	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lift	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 lift	compound:prt
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 paddled	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 paddled	nsubj
28	paddled	paddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lift	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kept	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 kept	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 kept	nsubj
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 kept	advmod
33	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eye	nmod:poss
35	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kept	obj
36	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 kept	xcomp
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 waves	case
38	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 waves	amod
39	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 open	obl
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 hurt	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 hurt	aux
42	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 waves	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	he				after that		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	to-infinitive	he not said here			a beach pool			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pool=Location
3	let	infinitive	he not said here	the wash					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wash=Theme
4	cover	present	the wash not said here		him = he			of the waves	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
5	lift up	infinitive	he not said here	him = he					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	paddle	past	he						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	keep	past	he	his eye				always, open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
8	hurt	might	big waves						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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