The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 58

By daylight Kotick’s mane was standing on end and his temper was gone where the dead crabs go.

Who acts: mane, temper, dead crabs, Kotick · What happens: stand, be, go, temper · To what, where: end

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 (mane, temper, dead crabs, 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 daylight	case
2	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl
3	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mane	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Kotick	case
5	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 standing	aux
7	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 end	case
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gone	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 temper	nmod:poss
12	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	cop
14	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 standing	conj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 go	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crabs	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crabs	amod
18	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	Kotick's mane	on end	by daylight	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by daylight=Location
2	is	past	Kotick's temper		gone property	tree rules
3	go	present	the dead crabs			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	temper		Kotick			nom temper «feeling 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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