The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 86

There was no sound from the elephants, except once, when two or three little calves squeaked together.

Who acts: sound, two little calves · What happens: be, squeak

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 (sound, two little calves), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 elephants	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elephants	det
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 once	punct
9	except	except	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 squeaked	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 squeaked	advmod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 calves	nummod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 three	cc
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 two	conj
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 calves	amod
17	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 squeaked	nsubj
18	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	conj
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 squeaked	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no sound			there		from the elephants; once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	squeak	participle	two little calves					together property	vn animal_sounds-38 «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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