The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 20

Then Little Toomai would climb up to the top of one of the quivering stockade posts, his sun-bleached brown hair flying loose all over his shoulders, and he looking like a goblin in the torch-light.

Who acts: Little Toomai, bleached brown hair, Toomai · What happens: climb up, quiver, bleach, fly, look · To what, where: bleached brown hair, top, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Toomai, bleached brown hair, Toomai), 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	5 climb	advmod
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Toomai	amod
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 climb	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 climb	aux
5	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 climb	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 top	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 posts	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 posts	det
14	quivering	quiver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 posts	amod
15	stockade	stockade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 posts	compound
16	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hair	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hair	nmod:poss
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bleached	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 sun	punct
21	bleached	bleach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hair	amod
22	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hair	amod
23	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obl
24	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 hair	acl
25	loose	loose	ADV	_	24 flying	advmod
26	all	all	ADV	_	29 shoulders	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 shoulders	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoulders	nmod:poss
29	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flying	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looking	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 looking	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 looking	nsubj
33	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 climb	advcl
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 goblin	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 goblin	det
36	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looking	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 light	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 light	det
39	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 light	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 torch	punct
41	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looking	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	would	Little Toomai	Toomai's bleached brown hair	the top of one of the quivering stockade posts	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
2	quiver	gerund						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	bleach	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fly	gerund	Toomai's bleached brown hair not said here		Toomai's shoulders		loose property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location
5	look	gerund	Toomai				like a goblin; in the torch light	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in light=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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