The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 57

There were creepers hanging from the upper branches, and the bells of the flowers of the creepers, great waxy white things like convolvuluses, hung down fast asleep.

Who acts: creepers, bells · What happens: be, hang, hang down · To what, where: upper branches

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 (creepers, bells), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 creepers	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 branches	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 branches	det
7	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 branches	amod
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hanging	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hung	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hung	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bells	det
12	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hung	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 flowers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flowers	det
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bells	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 creepers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 creepers	det
18	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flowers	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 things	punct
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
21	waxy	waxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 creepers	conj
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 convolvuluses	case
25	convolvuluses	convolvulus	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 things	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bells	punct
27	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 hung	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 hung	advmod
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hung	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	creepers	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hang	gerund	creepers not said here	the upper branches		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hang down	past	the bells of the flowers of the creepers and great waxy white things like convolvuluses		asleep, down, fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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