The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 27

This cheered him immensely; and when he came back to Novastoshnah that summer, Matkah, his mother, begged him to marry and settle down, for he was no longer a holluschick but a full-grown sea-catch, with a curly white mane on his shoulders, as heavy, as big, and as fierce as his father.

Who acts: This, Kotick, that · What happens: cheer, come back, summer, beg, marry, settle down · To what, where: Kotick, Novastoshnah

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 (This, Kotick, that), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 cheered	nsubj
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	obj
4	immensely	immensely	ADV	_	2 cheered	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 begged	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 begged	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 begged	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Novastoshnah	case
12	Novastoshnah	Novastoshnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 summer	nsubj
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Matkah	punct
16	Matkah	Matkah	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 summer	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mother	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Matkah	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 begged	punct
21	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cheered	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 begged	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 begged	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 settle	cc
26	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 marry	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 settle	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 holluschick	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	35 holluschick	case
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 holluschick	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 holluschick	cop
32	no	no	ADV	_	33 longer	advmod
33	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 holluschick	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 holluschick	det
35	holluschick	holluschick	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 settle	obl
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 catch	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 catch	det
38	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 grown	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 full	punct
40	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 catch	amod
41	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 catch	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 sea	punct
43	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 holluschick	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 mane	punct
45	with	with	ADP	_	49 mane	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 mane	det
47	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 mane	amod
48	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 mane	amod
49	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 holluschick	conj
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 shoulders	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 shoulders	nmod:poss
52	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 mane	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 heavy	punct
54	as	as	ADP	_	55 heavy	case
55	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 settle	advcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 big	punct
57	as	as	ADP	_	58 big	case
58	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 heavy	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 fierce	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 fierce	cc
61	as	as	ADV	_	62 fierce	advmod
62	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 begged	conj
63	as	as	ADP	_	65 father	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 father	nmod:poss
65	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 fierce	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cheered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	This	Kotick			immensely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	come back	past	Kotick			Novastoshnah		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to novastoshnah=Initial_Location
3	summer		that					tree rules
4	beg speech: request	past	This not said here		Kotick			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	marry	to-infinitive	This not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	settle down	infinitive	This not said here					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
7	is	past	Kotick				for a holluschick but a grown sea catch and a curly white mane on Kotick's shoulders; long property	tree rules
8	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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