The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 61

Little Toomai could only count up to ten, and he counted again and again on his fingers till he lost count of the tens, and his head began to swim.

Who acts: Little Toomai, Toomai, head · What happens: count up, count, lose, begin, swim · To what, where: count

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 Toomai, Toomai, head), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Toomai	amod
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 count	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 count	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 count	advmod
5	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 count	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 ten	case
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 count	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 counted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 counted	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 counted	nsubj
12	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 count	conj
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 counted	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 again	cc
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 again	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 fingers	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fingers	nmod:poss
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 counted	obl
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 lost	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lost	nsubj
21	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 counted	advcl
22	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 tens	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tens	det
25	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 count	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 began	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 began	nsubj
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 count	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 swim	mark
32	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 count	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	count up	could	Little Toomai			to ten	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ten=Experiencer
2	count	past	Toomai		again	on Toomai's fingers	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on finger=Theme
3	lose	past	Toomai	count of the tens			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Eventuality
4	begin	past	Toomai's head				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	swim	to-infinitive	Toomai's head not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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