The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 103

Behind the mule there was a camel, with his big soft feet squelching and slipping in the mud, and his neck bobbing to and fro like a strayed hen’s.

Who acts: camel, big soft feet, neck · What happens: be, squelch, slip, bob, fro, stray

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camel, big soft feet, neck), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 mule	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mule	det
3	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 camel	det
7	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feet	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 feet	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feet	nmod:poss
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feet	amod
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feet	amod
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 was	parataxis
14	squelching	squelch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 feet	acl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slipping	cc
16	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 squelching	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 mud	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mud	det
19	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slipping	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bobbing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bobbing	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neck	nmod:poss
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bobbing	nsubj
24	bobbing	bob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 squelching	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 bobbing	fixed
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fro	cc
27	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bobbing	conj
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 hen	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hen	det
30	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 hen	amod
31	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fro	obl
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 hen	case
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a camel	there	behind the mule	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind mule=Location
2	squelch	gerund	camel's big soft feet not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	slip	gerund	camel's big soft feet not said here		in the mud	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mud=Attribute
4	bob	gerund	camel's neck			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fro	infinitive	camel's neck not said here		like a strayed hen	tree rules
6	stray	participle				vn run-51.3.2 «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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