The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 78

Then Kerick sat down on the moss and pulled out a heavy pewter watch and let the drove cool off for thirty minutes, and Kotick could hear the fog-dew dripping off the brim of his cap.

Who acts: Kerick, Kotick, fog dew · What happens: sit down, pull out, let, drive, cool off, hear · To what, where: moss, heavy pewter watch, fog dew, brim

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 (Kerick, Kotick, fog dew), 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 sat	advmod
2	Kerick	Kerick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 moss	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moss	det
7	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pulled	cc
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 pulled	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 watch	det
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 watch	amod
13	pewter	pewter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watch	compound
14	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulled	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 drove	det
18	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 let	ccomp
19	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 cool	compound:prt
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 minutes	case
22	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 minutes	nummod
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cool	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hear	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hear	cc
26	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 hear	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hear	aux
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dew	det
30	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dew	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 fog	punct
32	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hear	obj
33	dripping	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 dew	acl
34	off	off	ADP	_	36 brim	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 brim	det
36	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dripping	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 cap	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 cap	nmod:poss
39	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 brim	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit down	past	Kerick		the moss	then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on moss=Location
2	pull out	participle	Kerick not said here	a heavy pewter watch			tree rules
3	let	infinitive	Kerick not said here				tree rules
4	drive	past	Kerick not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	cool off	infinitive	Kerick not said here			minute	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	hear	could	Kotick	the fog dew			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dew=Stimulus
7	drip	gerund	the fog dew not said here		the brim of Kotick's cap		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off brim=Location

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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