The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 19

Little Toomai turned, rustling in the fodder, and watched the curve of his big back against half the stars in heaven, and while he watched he heard, so far away that it sounded no more than a pinhole of noise pricked through the stillness, the “hoot-toot” of a wild elephant.

Who acts: Little Toomai, Toomai, curve · What happens: turn, rustle, watch, hear, sound, prick · To what, where: fodder, curve, more, noise, wild elephant

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, curve), 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 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rustling	punct
5	rustling	rustle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 turned	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 fodder	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fodder	det
8	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rustling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 watched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 watched	cc
11	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 curve	det
13	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watched	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 back	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 back	amod
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 curve	nmod
18	against	against	ADP	_	21 stars	case
19	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	21 stars	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stars	det
21	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 back	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 heaven	case
23	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stars	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 watched	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 watched	cc
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 watched	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 watched	nsubj
28	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 watched	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heard	nsubj
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 watched	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 away	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 away	advmod
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 away	advmod
34	away	away	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 sounded	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sounded	nsubj
37	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 away	advcl
38	no	no	ADV	_	39 more	advmod
39	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 sounded	obj
40	than	than	ADP	_	42 pinhole	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 pinhole	det
42	pinhole	pinhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 more	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 noise	case
44	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pinhole	nmod
45	pricked	prick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 noise	acl
46	through	through	ADP	_	48 stillness	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 stillness	det
48	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pricked	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 toot	punct
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 toot	det
51	“	"	PUNCT	_	54 toot	punct
52	hoot	hoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 toot	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 hoot	punct
54	toot	toot	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pinhole	conj
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	54 toot	punct
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 elephant	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 elephant	det
58	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 elephant	amod
59	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 toot	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Little Toomai			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	rustle	gerund	Little Toomai not said here		the fodder		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fodder=Location
3	watch	past	Little Toomai not said here	the curve of Toomai's big back against half stars in heaven			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curve=Theme
4	watch	past	Toomai				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	Toomai				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	sound	past	curve	more			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
7	prick	participle		noise not said here		through the stillness	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through stillness=Patient
8	toot in a quote			a wild elephant			nom toot «event transitive»: of=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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