The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 4

They sat stone-still, and their faces were white.

Who acts: Teddy, faces · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: stone

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teddy, faces), 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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 stone	punct
5	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 white	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 white	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 faces	nmod:poss
9	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 white	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 white	cop
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Teddy	stone			still		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme
2	is	past	Teddy's faces					white property	tree rules

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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