The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 85

You preferred prowling about in the sea.”

Who acts: You · What happens: prefer, prowl

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 (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 preferred	nsubj
2	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	prowling	prowl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 preferred	xcomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 sea	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prowling	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 preferred	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 preferred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	past	You						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	prowl not said to happen	gerund	You not said here					about the sea	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about sea=Trajectory

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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