The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 97

“This is a splendid hunting-ground,” he said, and his tail grew bottle-brushy at the thought of it, and he scuttled up and down the garden, snuffing here and there till he heard very sorrowful voices in a thorn-bush.

Who acts: This, Tikki, tail · What happens: be, say, grow, scuttle up, snuff, hear · To what, where: splendid hunting ground, thought, sorrowful voices, thorn bush · 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 (This, Tikki, tail), 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	_	8 ground	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 ground	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ground	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ground	det
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ground	amod
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ground	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hunting	punct
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ground	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 ground	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tail	nmod:poss
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brushy	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 bottle	punct
20	brushy	brushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grew	xcomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 thought	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thought	det
23	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scuttled	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 scuttled	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 scuttled	nsubj
29	scuttled	scuttle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 scuttled	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 garden	cc
32	down	down	ADP	_	34 garden	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 garden	det
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scuttled	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 snuffing	punct
36	snuffing	snuff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 scuttled	advcl
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 snuffing	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 there	cc
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 here	conj
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 heard	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 heard	nsubj
42	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 snuffing	advcl
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 sorrowful	advmod
44	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 voices	amod
45	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 heard	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	50 bush	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 bush	det
48	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bush	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 thorn	punct
50	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 heard	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	a splendid hunting ground			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Tikki				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	Tikki's tail		the thought of thought	brushy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Location
4	scuttle up	past	Tikki				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	snuff	gerund	Tikki not said here		here		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hear	past	Tikki	sorrowful voices	a thorn bush		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
7	think			thought			nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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