The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 72

He heard the click of tusks as they crossed other tusks by accident, and the dry rustle of trunks twined together, and the chafing of enormous sides and shoulders in the crowd, and the incessant flick and hissh of the great tails.

Who acts: Little, tusks, trunks · What happens: hear, cross, twine, click, rustle, flick · To what, where: click, other tusks, dry rustle, crowd, tusks, great tails · Speech: someone speaks here

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, tusks, trunks), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 click	det
4	click	click	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tusks	case
6	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 click	nmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 crossed	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 crossed	nsubj
9	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	ccomp
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tusks	amod
11	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 crossed	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 accident	case
13	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crossed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 twined	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 twined	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rustle	det
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rustle	amod
18	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 twined	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 trunks	case
20	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rustle	nmod
21	twined	twine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 heard	conj
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 twined	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chafing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 chafing	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 chafing	det
26	chafing	chafing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 twined	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sides	case
28	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sides	amod
29	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 chafing	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shoulders	cc
31	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sides	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 crowd	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 crowd	det
34	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 twined	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 flick	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 flick	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flick	det
38	incessant	incessant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 flick	amod
39	flick	flick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hissh	cc
41	hissh	hissh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 flick	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 tails	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tails	det
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tails	amod
45	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 flick	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Little	the click of tusks			tree rules
2	cross	past	tusks = tusk	other tusks		by accident	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient
3	twine	participle · passive		the dry rustle of trunks	the crowd	the chafing of enormous sides and shoulders obl; together property	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme
4	click			tusks			nom click «event transitive»: of=patient
5	rustle		trunks				nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=agent
6	flick			the great tails			nom flick «event transitive»: of=patient

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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