The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 69

“My wig!” he said, when he rose, gasping and puffing, into open water at the farther end.

Who acts: Kotick · What happens: say, rise · To what, where: gasping, open water · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 wig	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wig	nmod:poss
3	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wig	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wig	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rose	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 rose	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rose	nsubj
11	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gasping	punct
13	gasping	gasping	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rose	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 puffing	cc
15	puffing	puffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gasping	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 water	punct
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rose	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 end	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
22	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 end	amod
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rose	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kotick						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rise	past	Kotick	gasping and puffing		open water	at the farther end		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gasping=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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