The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 44

Above the noise of the water, as it swirled round the elephant’s legs, Little Toomai could hear more splashing and some trumpeting both upstream and down--great grunts and angry snortings, and all the mist about him seemed to be full of rolling, wavy shadows.

Who acts: noise, Little, mist, water · What happens: swirl, hear, trumpet, seem, be, roll · To what, where: water, legs, more splashing, noise, great grunts, wavy shadows

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 (noise, Little, mist, water), 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	Above	above	ADP	_	3 noise	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noise	det
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noise	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swirled	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 swirled	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swirled	nsubj:pass
10	swirled	swirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 noise	acl
11	round	round	ADP	_	15 legs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 elephant	det
13	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 legs	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 elephant	case
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swirled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 noise	punct
17	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hear	nsubj
18	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Little	flat
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hear	aux
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 splashing	amod
22	splashing	splashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 some	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 splashing	conj
25	trumpeting	trumpet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 some	acl
26	both	both	ADV	_	27 upstream	advmod
27	upstream	upstream	ADV	_	25 trumpeting	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 down	cc
29	down	down	ADV	_	27 upstream	conj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 grunts	punct
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grunts	amod
32	grunts	grunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 trumpeting	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 snortings	cc
34	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 snortings	amod
35	snortings	snorting	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grunts	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 seemed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 seemed	cc
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 mist	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mist	det
40	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seemed	nsubj
41	about	about	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 mist	nmod
43	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hear	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	46 full	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 full	cop
46	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 seemed	xcomp
47	of	of	SCONJ	_	48 rolling	mark
48	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 full	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 shadows	punct
50	wavy	wavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 shadows	amod
51	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 rolling	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swirl	participle · passive	the noise of the water not said here	water	the elephant's legs		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme round leg=Destination
2	hear	could	Little	more splashing	the noise of the water		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer splashing=Stimulus
3	trumpet	gerund		great grunts and angry snortings		upstream property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	all mist about Kala				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	all mist about Kala not said here			full property	tree rules
6	roll	gerund	all mist about Kala not said here	wavy shadows			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Agent
7	noise		the water				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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