The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 148

My husband lies on the rubbish heap this morning, but before night the boy in the house will lie very still.

Who acts: husband, rubbish, boy · What happens: lie, heap

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 (husband, rubbish, boy), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	nsubj
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 heap	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rubbish	det
6	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heap	nsubj
7	heap	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lies	advcl
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heap	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lie	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 lie	cc
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lie	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lie	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boy	nmod
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lie	aux
20	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lies	conj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 still	advmod
22	still	still	ADV	_	20 lie	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	lie	present	My husband		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	heap	present	the rubbish	morning	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	lie	future	the boy in the house	still; night	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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