The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 41

Then Little Toomai laid himself down close to the great neck lest a swinging bough should sweep him to the ground, and he wished that he were back in the lines again.

Who acts: Little, swinging bough, skin · What happens: lay down, swing, sweep, wish, be · To what, where: skin, ground, lines

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, swinging bough, skin), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 laid	advmod
2	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laid	nsubj
3	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Little	flat
4	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 laid	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 laid	advmod
7	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 laid	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 neck	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 neck	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 neck	amod
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obl
12	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	17 sweep	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bough	det
14	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 bough	amod
15	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sweep	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sweep	aux
17	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laid	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sweep	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sweep	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wished	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wished	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wished	nsubj
25	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 back	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 back	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 back	cop
29	back	back	ADV	_	25 wished	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 lines	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lines	det
32	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 back	obl
33	again	again	ADV	_	29 back	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	Little	skin		then	to the great neck; close, down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
2	swing	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	sweep	should	a swinging bough	skin	the ground			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Trajectory
4	wish	past	skin					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is	past	skin		the lines	again	back property	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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