The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 99

They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff.

Who acts: Darzee · What happens: make, pull, stitch up, fill · To what, where: beautiful nest, two big leaves, Darzee, hollow

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 (Darzee), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nest	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nest	amod
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 pulling	mark
8	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	advcl
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 leaves	nummod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leaves	amod
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pulling	obj
12	together	together	ADV	_	8 pulling	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stitching	cc
14	stitching	stitch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 pulling	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stitching	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 stitching	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 edges	det
18	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stitching	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 fibers	case
20	fibers	fiber	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 edges	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 filled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 filled	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 filled	aux
24	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 made	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hollow	det
26	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 filled	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 cotton	case
28	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fluff	cc
30	downy	downy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fluff	amod
31	fluff	fluff	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cotton	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	Darzee	a beautiful nest		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
2	pull	gerund	Darzee not said here	two big leaves	together property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
3	stitch up	gerund	Darzee not said here	Darzee		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent they=Patient edge=Result
4	fill	past · perfect	Darzee not said here	the hollow	with cotton and downy fluff	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cotton=Instrument

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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