The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 29

_The Beaches of Lukannon—the winter wheat so tall— The dripping, crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all!

Who acts: sea fog · What happens: crinkle, drench · To what, where: all

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea fog), 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 Beaches	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Beaches	det
3	Beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Lukannon	case
5	Lukannon	Lukannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Beaches	nmod
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 wheat	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wheat	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wheat	compound
9	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Beaches	appos
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 tall	advmod
11	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wheat	amod
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 dripping	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dripping	det
14	dripping	dripping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wheat	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lichens	punct
16	crinkled	crinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lichens	amod
17	lichens	lichen	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dripping	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fog	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fog	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fog	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fog	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 sea	punct
23	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wheat	conj
24	drenching	drench	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 fog	acl
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 drenching	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Beaches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crinkle	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	drench	gerund	the sea fog not said here	all					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Destination

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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