The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 5

“My wig!” said old Sea Catch, boosting himself up stiffly, for he was fearfully mauled.

Who acts: wig · What happens: say, boost up, maul · To what, where: old Sea Catch, Catch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wig), 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	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wig	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wig	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Catch	amod
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Catch	compound
9	Catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boosting	punct
11	boosting	boost	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 boosting	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 boosting	compound:prt
14	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	_	11 boosting	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mauled	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 mauled	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 mauled	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mauled	aux:pass
19	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	20 mauled	advmod
20	mauled	maul	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 boosting	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My wig	old Sea Catch		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent catch=Topic
2	boost up	gerund	My wig not said here	Catch	stiffly property	vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	maul	past · passive		Catch	fearfully property	tree rules

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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