The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 16, sentence 93

Little Toomai was hanging eight feet up in the air, and he wished very much that he were eight feet underground.

Who acts: Little Toomai, Toomai · What happens: hang up, wish, be · To what, where: eight feet, air

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, 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Toomai	amod
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hanging	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hanging	aux
4	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 feet	nummod
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hanging	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 hanging	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hanging	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wished	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wished	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wished	nsubj
14	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hanging	conj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	21 feet	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 feet	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 feet	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 feet	cop
20	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 feet	nummod
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wished	obl
22	underground	underground	ADV	_	14 wished	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hanging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang up	past · progressive	Little Toomai	eight feet	the air		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in air=Destination
2	wish	past	Toomai			underground property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	past	Toomai	eight feet			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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