The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 30

Curiously enough, there was another seal who thought that she would put off marrying till the next year, and Kotick danced the Fire-dance with her all down Lukannon Beach the night before he set off on his last exploration.

Who acts: seal, wave, Kotick · What happens: be, think, put off, dance, set off, explore · To what, where: marrying, Fire dance, last exploration · 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 (seal, wave, Kotick), 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	Curiously	curiously	ADV	_	5 was	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Curiously	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Curiously	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 seal	det
7	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seal	acl:relcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 put	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	ccomp
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 put	compound:prt
15	marrying	marrying	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	till	till	ADP	_	19 year	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 year	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 year	amod
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 danced	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 danced	cc
22	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 danced	nsubj
23	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 was	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dance	det
25	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 dance	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Fire	punct
27	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 danced	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 danced	obl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 Beach	det
31	down	down	ADV	_	33 Beach	advmod
32	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Beach	compound
33	Beach	Beach	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 her	appos
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 night	det
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 danced	obl:unmarked
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 set	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 set	nsubj
38	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 danced	advcl
39	off	off	ADP	_	38 set	compound:prt
40	on	on	ADP	_	43 exploration	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 exploration	nmod:poss
42	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 exploration	amod
43	exploration	exploration	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 set	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	another seal		there		curiously property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	another seal					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	put off	would	wave	marrying		year		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent marrying=Goal
4	dance	past	Kotick	the Fire dance		night	with wave	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme
5	set off	past	Kotick		Kotick's last exploration			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	explore		Kotick					nom exploration «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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