The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 37

A big brown fruit-eating bat brushed past his ear; a porcupine’s quills rattled in the thicket; and in the darkness between the tree stems he heard a hog-bear digging hard in the moist warm earth, and snuffing as it digged.

Who acts: big brown eating bat, bat, hog bear, bear · What happens: eat, brush, rattle, hear, dig, snuff · To what, where: quills, ear, thicket, hog bear, darkness, moist warm earth

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 (big brown eating bat, bat, hog bear, bear), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bat	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bat	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bat	amod
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 fruit	punct
6	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 bat	amod
7	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brushed	nsubj
8	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	past	past	ADP	_	11 ear	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ear	nmod:poss
11	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brushed	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 quills	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 porcupine	det
14	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quills	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 porcupine	case
16	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brushed	obl
17	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 quills	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 thicket	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thicket	det
20	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rattled	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 heard	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 heard	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 darkness	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 darkness	det
25	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heard	obl
26	between	between	ADP	_	29 stems	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stems	det
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stems	compound
29	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 darkness	nmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 heard	nsubj
31	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brushed	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bear	det
33	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bear	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 hog	punct
35	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heard	obj
36	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 bear	acl
37	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 digging	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	42 earth	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 earth	det
40	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 earth	amod
41	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 earth	amod
42	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 digging	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 snuffing	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 snuffing	cc
45	snuffing	snuff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 heard	advcl
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 digged	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 digged	nsubj
48	digged	digg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 snuffing	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	brush	past	a big brown eating bat	a porcupine's quills	bat's ear		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past ear=Destination
3	rattle	participle		a porcupine's quills not said here	the thicket		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thicket=Location
4	hear	past	bat	a hog bear	the darkness between the tree stems		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus
5	dig	gerund	a hog bear not said here		the moist warm earth	hard property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in earth=Location
6	snuff	gerund	bat not said here				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	digg	past	bear				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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