The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 67

“I am going to follow,” he said, and his eyes nearly popped out of his head as he shuffled along in the wake of the herd.

Who acts: Man, eyes · What happens: go, follow, say, pop out, shuffle · To what, where: head, wake · 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 (Man, eyes), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 popped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 popped	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 popped	nsubj
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 popped	advmod
16	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 head	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 popped	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 shuffled	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shuffled	nsubj
23	shuffled	shuffle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 popped	advcl
24	along	along	ADV	_	23 shuffled	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 wake	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wake	det
27	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shuffled	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 herd	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 herd	det
30	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wake	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	Man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow in a quote	to-infinitive	Man not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pop out	past	Man's eyes	Man's head		nearly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	shuffle	past	Man		the wake of the herd	along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wake=Trajectory

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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