The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 55

He found a little wisp of grass floating there, and clung to it till he lost his senses.

Who acts: Tikki, grass · What happens: find, float, cling, lose · To what, where: little wisp, grass, senses

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 (Tikki, grass), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wisp	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wisp	amod
5	wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grass	case
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wisp	nmod
8	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 grass	acl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 floating	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clung	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clung	cc
12	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 clung	obl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 lost	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lost	nsubj
17	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 clung	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 senses	nmod:poss
19	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lost	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	find	past	Tikki	a little wisp of grass			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisp=Topic
2	float	gerund	grass not said here			there	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cling	participle	Tikki not said here		grass		vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to it=Co-Theme
4	lose	past	Tikki	Tikki's senses			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality

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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