The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 89

The morning broke in one sheet of pale yellow behind the green hills, and the booming stopped with the first ray, as though the light had been an order.

Who acts: morning, booming, light · What happens: break, stop, be · To what, where: one sheet, order

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 (morning, booming, light), 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 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sheet	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sheet	nummod
6	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 yellow	case
8	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 yellow	amod
9	yellow	yellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sheet	nmod
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hills	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hills	amod
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broke	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stopped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stopped	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 booming	det
17	booming	booming	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stopped	nsubj
18	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 ray	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ray	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 ray	amod
22	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stopped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 order	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 order	mark
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 order	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 light	det
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 order	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 order	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 order	cop
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 order	det
31	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stopped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	the morning		one sheet of pale yellow	behind the green hills	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sheet=Location
2	stop	past	the booming			with the first ray	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with ray=Location
3	is a	past · perfect	the light	a order			tree rules

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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