The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 33

Then they went inland to the holluschickie grounds and rolled up and down in the new wild wheat and told stories of what they had done while they had been at sea.

Who acts: seals · What happens: go, roll up, tell, do, be · To what, where: holluschickie grounds, new wild wheat, stories, sea · 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 (seals), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inland	inland	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 grounds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grounds	det
7	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grounds	compound
8	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rolled	cc
10	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 rolled	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 down	cc
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 up	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 wheat	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wheat	det
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wheat	amod
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wheat	amod
18	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rolled	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 told	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stories	nmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 what	acl:relcl
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 sea	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sea	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sea	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 sea	cop
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 sea	case
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 done	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	seals = seal		the holluschickie grounds	then	inland property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grounds=Initial_Location
2	roll up	participle	seals = seal not said here		the new wild wheat			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wheat=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	past	seals = seal not said here	stories				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	do	past · perfect	seals = seal					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past · perfect	seals = seal		sea			tree rules

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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