The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 79

He turned where he was lying all along on Pudmini’s back and said, “What is that?

Who acts: Petersen, that · What happens: turn, lie, say, be · To what, where: back · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Petersen, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 lying	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 turned	xcomp
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 back	case
10	Pudmini	Pudmini	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 back	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Pudmini	case
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 What	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 What	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 said	ccomp
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 What	cop
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Petersen			tree rules
2	lie	past · progressive	Petersen	Pudmini's back	along property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
3	say speech: ask	past	Petersen not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	that			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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