The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 23

That night at dinner, walking to and fro among the wine-glasses on the table, he might have stuffed himself three times over with nice things.

Who acts: you, Rikki · What happens: walk, fro, stuff · To what, where: Rikki

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 (you, Rikki), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fro	obl:unmarked
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dinner	case
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
6	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fro	csubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 walking	fixed
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fro	cc
9	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	among	among	ADP	_	14 glasses	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 glasses	det
12	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glasses	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 wine	punct
14	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fro	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 table	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glasses	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stuffed	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stuffed	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 stuffed	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 stuffed	aux
22	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fro	conj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 stuffed	obj
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 times	nummod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 over	obl:unmarked
26	over	over	ADV	_	22 stuffed	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 things	case
28	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stuffed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fro	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	imperative	you not said here		night	among the wine glasses on the table	tree rules
3	stuff	might · perfect	Rikki	Rikki		with nice things; over property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with thing=Theme

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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