The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 41

Then he began to jump up and down, all four feet together, his head close to the floor.

Who acts: boy · What happens: begin, jump up · To what, where: four feet

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 jump	mark
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 jump	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 down	cc
8	down	down	ADV	_	6 up	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feet	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 feet	det
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 feet	nummod
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jump	obl
13	together	together	ADV	_	5 jump	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 head	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	obl
17	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 head	amod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 close	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	boy				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	jump up	to-infinitive	boy not said here	all four feet				boy's head obl; together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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