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The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 39

Their heads were the most foolish-looking things you ever saw, and they balanced on the ends of their tails in deep water when they weren’t grazing, bowing solemnly to each other and waving their front flippers as a fat man waves his arm.

Who acts: heads, you, People, fat man · What happens: look, be, see, balance, not graze, bow · To what, where: looking things, ends, front flippers, arm

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 (heads, you, People, fat man), 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

nmod:possnsubjcopdetadvmodcompoundpunctamodnsubjadvmodacl:relclpunctccnsubjconjcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodcaseamodobladvmodnsubjauxadvmodadvclpunctconjadvmodcaseoblfixedccconjnmod:possamodobjmarkdetamodnsubjadvclnmod:possobjpunctrootTheirPRONheadsNOUNwereAUXtheDETmostADVfoolishADJ-PUNCTlookingVERBthingsNOUNyouPRONeverADVsawVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONbalancedVERBonADPtheDETendsNOUNofADPtheirPRONtailsNOUNinADPdeepADJwaterNOUNwhenADVtheyPRONwereAUXn’tPARTgrazingVERB,PUNCTbowingVERBsolemnlyADVtoADPeachDETotherADJandCCONJwavingVERBtheirPRONfrontADJflippersNOUNasSCONJaDETfatADJmanNOUNwavesVERBhisPRONarmNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 headsnmod:poss
2headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur9 thingsnsubj
3werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 thingscop
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 thingsdet
5mostmostADVDegree=Sup6 foolishadvmod
6foolishfoolishADJDegree=Pos8 lookingcompound
7--PUNCT_6 foolishpunct
8lookinglookVERBVerbForm=Ger9 thingsamod
9thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
10youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs12 sawnsubj
11evereverADVPronType=Ind12 sawadvmod
12sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 thingsacl:relcl
13,,PUNCT_16 balancedpunct
14andandCCONJ_16 balancedcc
15theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs16 balancednsubj
16balancedbalanceVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 sawconj
17ononADP_19 endscase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 endsdet
19endsendNOUNNumber=Plur16 balancedobl
20ofofADP_22 tailscase
21theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 tailsnmod:poss
22tailstailNOUNNumber=Plur19 endsnmod
23ininADP_25 watercase
24deepdeepADJDegree=Pos25 wateramod
25waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing16 balancedobl
26whenwhenADVPronType=Int30 grazingadvmod
27theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 grazingnsubj
28werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 grazingaux
29n’tnotPARTPolarity=Neg30 grazingadvmod
30grazinggrazeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 balancedadvcl
31,,PUNCT_32 bowingpunct
32bowingbowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part30 grazingconj
33solemnlysolemnlyADV_32 bowingadvmod
34totoADP_35 eachcase
35eacheachDETExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp32 bowingobl
36otherotherADJDegree=Pos35 eachfixed
37andandCCONJ_38 wavingcc
38wavingwaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part30 grazingconj
39theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 flippersnmod:poss
40frontfrontADJDegree=Pos41 flippersamod
41flippersflipperNOUNNumber=Plur38 wavingobj
42asasSCONJ_46 wavesmark
43aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art45 mandet
44fatfatADJDegree=Pos45 manamod
45manmanNOUNNumber=Sing46 wavesnsubj
46waveswaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin38 wavingadvcl
47hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs48 armnmod:poss
48armarmNOUNNumber=Sing46 wavesobj
49..PUNCT_9 thingspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookgerundvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2is apastPeople's headsthe looking thingstree rules
3seepastyouthe looking things not said hereevervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4balancepastPeopleon the ends of People's tailsin deep watervn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on end=Location
5not grazepast · progressivePeoplevn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6bowgerundPeople not said hereto each; solemnly propertyvn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to each=Theme
7wavegerundPeople not said herePeople's front flippersvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Patient
8wavepresenta fat manseal's armvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient

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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