The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 2

He was two weeks learning to use his flippers; and all that while he floundered in and out of the water, and coughed and grunted and crawled up the beach and took catnaps on the sand, and went back again, until at last he found that he truly belonged to the water.

Who acts: He, two weeks · What happens: be, learn, use, flounder, cough, grunt · To what, where: two weeks, flippers, that, beach, catnaps, sand · Speech: someone speaks here

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, two weeks), 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	4 weeks	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weeks	cop
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 weeks	nummod
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 weeks	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 use	mark
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learning	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 flippers	nmod:poss
9	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 floundered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 all	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 floundered	advmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 floundered	obj
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 floundered	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 floundered	nsubj
16	floundered	flounder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weeks	parataxis
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 floundered	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 water	cc
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 water	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 in	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 coughed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 coughed	cc
25	coughed	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 floundered	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grunted	cc
27	grunted	grunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 coughed	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 crawled	cc
29	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 coughed	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 crawled	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 beach	det
32	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crawled	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 took	cc
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 floundered	conj
35	catnaps	catnap	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 took	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 sand	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sand	det
38	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 went	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 took	parataxis
42	back	back	ADV	_	41 went	advmod
43	again	again	ADV	_	41 went	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 found	punct
45	until	until	SCONJ	_	49 found	mark
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 last	case
47	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 found	obl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 found	nsubj
49	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 went	conj
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 belonged	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 belonged	nsubj
52	truly	truly	ADV	_	53 belonged	advmod
53	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 found	ccomp
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 water	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 water	det
56	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 belonged	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weeks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	two weeks				tree rules
2	learn	gerund	two weeks not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	use	to-infinitive	two weeks not said here	his flippers				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Patient
4	flounder	past	he	that				tree rules
5	cough	past	he not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	grunt	past	he not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	crawl up	past	he not said here	the beach				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location beach=Theme
8	take	past	he not said here	catnaps	the sand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent catnap=Theme on sand=Destination
9	go back	past				again		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
10	find	past	he		last			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	belong	past	he				to the water; truly property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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