The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 88

Then Little Toomai covered his face with his hands, for he was only a child, and except where elephants were concerned, he was just as bashful as a child could be.

Who acts: Little, Toomai, elephants · What happens: cover, be · To what, where: face

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, elephants), 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	4 covered	advmod
2	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 covered	nsubj
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Little	flat
4	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hands	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 child	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	16 child	case
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 child	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 child	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 child	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bashful	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bashful	cc
19	except	except	ADP	_	23 concerned	mark
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 concerned	advmod
21	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 concerned	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 concerned	cop
23	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bashful	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 concerned	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bashful	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bashful	cop
27	just	just	ADV	_	29 bashful	advmod
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 bashful	advmod
29	bashful	bashful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 covered	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 be	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 child	det
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 be	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 be	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 bashful	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	Little	Toomai's face	then	with Toomai's hands	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with hand=Theme
2	is	past	Toomai			for a child	tree rules
3	is	past	elephants			concerned property	tree rules
4	is	past	Toomai			bashful 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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