The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 42

The grass began to get squashy, and Kala Nag’s feet sucked and squelched as he put them down, and the night mist at the bottom of the valley chilled Little Toomai.

Who acts: grass, night mist · What happens: begin, get, suck, squelch, put down, chill · To what, where: feet, saplings, Little Toomai

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 (grass, night mist), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	squashy	squashy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sucked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sucked	cc
9	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 feet	nmod:poss
10	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Kala	flat
11	’s	's	PART	_	9 Kala	case
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sucked	nsubj:pass
13	sucked	suck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 squelched	cc
15	squelched	squelch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sucked	conj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 put	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 squelched	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 put	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 chilled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 chilled	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mist	det
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mist	compound
25	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 chilled	nsubj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 bottom	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bottom	det
28	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mist	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 valley	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 valley	det
31	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bottom	nmod
32	chilled	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
33	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Toomai	amod
34	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 chilled	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the grass			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	the grass not said here		squashy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	suck	participle · passive		Kala's feet		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
4	squelch	participle				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	put down	past	grass	saplings = sapling		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
6	chill	past	the night mist at the bottom of the valley	Little Toomai		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus toomai=Experiencer

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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