The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 139

She fluttered in front of Nagaina by the rubbish heap and cried out, “Oh, my wing is broken!

Who acts: wife · What happens: flutter, cry out, break · To what, where: front, wing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fluttered	nsubj
2	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fluttered	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Nagaina	case
6	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 front	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 heap	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heap	det
9	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heap	compound
10	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fluttered	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fluttered	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 cried	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 broken	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 broken	punct
16	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	21 broken	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Oh	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wing	nmod:poss
19	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broken	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 broken	aux:pass
21	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cried	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flutter	past	wife		front of Nagaina	by the rubbish heap	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
2	cry out speech: express	past	wife not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	break in a quote	present · passive		my wing			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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