The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 106

Old Sea Catch, his father, saw him tearing past, hauling the grizzled old seals about as though they had been halibut, and upsetting the young bachelors in all directions; and Sea Catch gave a roar and shouted: “He may be a fool, but he is the best fighter on the beaches!

Who acts: Old Sea Catch, seal, eyes, Sea Catch · What happens: see, tear, haul, grizzle, be, upset · To what, where: seal, grizzled old seals, halibut, young bachelors, directions, roar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Sea Catch, seal, eyes, Sea Catch), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Catch	amod
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Catch	compound
3	Catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Catch	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Catch	punct
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 saw	xcomp
11	past	past	ADV	_	10 tearing	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hauling	punct
13	hauling	haul	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 tearing	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 seals	det
15	grizzled	grizzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 seals	amod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seals	amod
17	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hauling	obj
18	about	about	ADV	_	24 halibut	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	24 halibut	advmod
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 halibut	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 halibut	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 halibut	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 halibut	cop
24	halibut	halibut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seals	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 upsetting	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 upsetting	cc
27	upsetting	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 tearing	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bachelors	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bachelors	amod
30	bachelors	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 upsetting	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 directions	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 directions	det
33	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bachelors	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 gave	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gave	cc
36	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Catch	compound
37	Catch	Catch	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 gave	nsubj
38	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 roar	det
40	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gave	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 shouted	cc
42	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 gave	conj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	49 fool	punct
44	“	"	PUNCT	_	49 fool	punct
45	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fool	nsubj
46	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 fool	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 fool	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 fool	det
49	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 shouted	ccomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 fighter	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 fighter	cc
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 fighter	nsubj
53	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 fighter	cop
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 fighter	det
55	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	56 fighter	amod
56	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	conj
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 beaches	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 beaches	det
59	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 fighter	nmod
60	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Old Sea Catch and Catch's father	seal			tree rules
2	tear	gerund	seal not said here			past property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	haul	gerund	seal not said here	the grizzled old seals			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme
4	grizzle	participle					tree rules
5	is a	past · perfect	eyes = eye	halibut		about property	tree rules
6	upset	gerund	seal not said here	the young bachelors	all directions		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bachelor=Experiencer
7	give	past	Sea Catch	a roar			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme
8	shout speech: express	past	Sea Catch not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a in a quote	may	seal	a fool			tree rules
10	is a in a quote	present	seal	the best fighter	the beaches		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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