The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 155

There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam’s eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell.

Who acts: tikki · What happens: find · To what, where: five eggs

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 (tikki), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 litter	expl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 litter	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 litter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 litter	det
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 litter	amod
6	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	above	above	ADP	_	9 melons	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 melons	det
9	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 litter	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hidden	punct
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 cunningly	advmod
12	cunningly	cunningly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hidden	amod
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 melons	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hidden	advcl
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 five	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 twenty	punct
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 eggs	nummod
20	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 found	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 size	punct
22	about	about	ADV	_	24 size	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 size	det
24	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eggs	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 eggs	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bantam	det
27	bantam	bantam	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eggs	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 bantam	case
29	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 size	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shell	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 shell	cc
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 skin	case
33	whitish	whitish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 skin	amod
34	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shell	nmod:poss
35	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	37 shell	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 instead	fixed
37	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 litter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	tikki	five eggs				instead whitish skin's shell	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic

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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