The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 81

The dew fell from the trees till there was no more left to fall, and the booming went on, and the ground rocked and shivered, and Little Toomai put his hands up to his ears to shut out the sound.

Who acts: dew, booming, ground, Little Toomai · What happens: fall, not be, go on, rock, shiver, put up · To what, where: trees, hands, sound

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 (dew, booming, ground, Little Toomai), 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 dew	det
2	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 left	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 left	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	cop
10	no	no	ADV	_	12 left	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 left	advmod
12	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fall	mark
14	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 left	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 booming	det
18	booming	booming	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
20	on	on	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rocked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rocked	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rocked	nsubj
25	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shivered	cc
27	shivered	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rocked	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 put	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 put	cc
30	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Toomai	amod
31	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 put	nsubj
32	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hands	nmod:poss
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 put	obj
35	up	up	ADP	_	32 put	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 ears	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 ears	nmod:poss
38	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 put	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 shut	mark
40	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 put	advcl
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 shut	compound:prt
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sound	det
43	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shut	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the dew		the trees		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location
2	not is	past	the dew not said here		there	left property	tree rules
3	fall	to-infinitive	the dew not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go on	past	the booming				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rock	past	the ground				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shiver	past	the ground not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	put up	past	Little Toomai	Toomai's hands		to Toomai's ears	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
8	shut out	to-infinitive	Little Toomai not said here	the sound			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sound=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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