The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 49

Then he began to mutter a prayer.

Who acts: yearling · What happens: begin, mutter · To what, where: prayer

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 (yearling), 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 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 mutter	mark
5	mutter	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prayer	det
7	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mutter	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	yearling				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	mutter speech: assert	to-infinitive	yearling not said here	a prayer					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic

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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