The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 82

And the red ants that live between the grass stems heard him, and began to troop down one after another to see if he had spoken the truth.

Who acts: red ants, widow · What happens: live, hear, begin, troop down, see, speak · To what, where: grass stems, widow, one, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (red ants, widow), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ants	det
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ants	amod
4	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 live	nsubj
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ants	acl:relcl
7	between	between	ADP	_	10 stems	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stems	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stems	compound
10	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 troop	mark
17	troop	troop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 troop	compound:prt
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 troop	obj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 another	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 troop	advcl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 spoken	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spoken	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spoken	aux
27	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 see	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 truth	det
29	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spoken	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	present	the red ants		the grass stems		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between stem=Location
2	hear	past	the red ants	widow			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	begin	past	the red ants not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	troop down	to-infinitive	the red ants not said here	one		after another	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	the red ants not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	widow	the truth			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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