The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 15

Little Toomai came in with a joyous tunk-a-tunk at the end of each verse, till he felt sleepy and stretched himself on the fodder at Kala Nag’s side.

Who acts: Little Toomai, Toomai · What happens: come in, feel, stretch · To what, where: Toomai, fodder

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. 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	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	12 tunk	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tunk	det
7	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tunk	amod
8	tunk	tunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tunk	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 tunk	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tunk	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 a	punct
12	tunk	tunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tunk	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 verse	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 verse	det
18	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 felt	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 felt	nsubj
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
23	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 felt	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stretched	cc
25	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 felt	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 stretched	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 fodder	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fodder	det
29	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stretched	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	34 side	case
31	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 side	nmod:poss
32	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Kala	flat
33	’s	's	PART	_	31 Kala	case
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stretched	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	Little Toomai			with a joyous tunk at the end of each verse	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	past	Toomai			sleepy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	stretch	past	Toomai not said here	Toomai	the fodder	at Kala's side	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

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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