The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 24

He stood still, looking out across the moonlight, his head a little raised and his ears spread like fans, up to the great folds of the Garo hills.

Who acts: Kala, ears · What happens: stand, look out, raise, spread · To what, where: head, moonlight, little

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 (Kala, ears), 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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looking	punct
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 looking	compound:prt
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 moonlight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moonlight	det
9	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 head	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 raised	obl:unmarked
15	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spread	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ears	nmod:poss
18	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spread	nsubj
19	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 raised	conj
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 fans	case
21	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spread	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 folds	punct
23	up	up	ADV	_	27 folds	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 folds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 folds	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 folds	amod
27	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fans	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 hills	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hills	det
30	Garo	Garo	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 hills	compound
31	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 folds	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Kala	Kala's head		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look out	gerund	Kala not said here		the moonlight			vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	raise	participle		a little				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	spread	present	Kala's ears				like fans and the great folds of the Garo hills	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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