The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 3

At night, just as the Northern Lights were winking and flashing through the fog, Kotick climbed a bare rock and looked down on the scattered nurseries and the torn and bleeding seals.

Who acts: Northern Lights, Kotick · What happens: wink, flash, climb, look down, tear, bleed · To what, where: fog, bare rock

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 (Northern Lights, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climbed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 winking	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	10 winking	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 winking	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lights	det
7	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Lights	amod
8	Lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 winking	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 winking	aux
10	winking	wink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 night	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flashing	cc
12	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 winking	conj
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 fog	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fog	det
15	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flashing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
17	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 climbed	nsubj
18	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rock	det
20	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rock	amod
21	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climbed	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 climbed	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 looked	compound:prt
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 nurseries	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nurseries	det
27	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	28 nurseries	amod
28	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 looked	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 seals	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 seals	det
31	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 seals	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bleeding	cc
33	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 torn	conj
34	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 nurseries	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wink	past · progressive	the Northern Lights					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flash	gerund	the Northern Lights not said here		the fog			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fog=Location
3	climb	past	Kotick	a bare rock		night		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rock=Theme
4	look down	past	Kotick not said here				on the scattered nurseries and the torn seals	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on nursery=Theme
5	tear	participle						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bleed	gerund						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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