The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 105

He must have been the one that flopped into my tent, for he called to the mule, “What shall I do?

Who acts: neck, one · What happens: be, flop, call, do · To what, where: one, tent, mule · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (neck, one), 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	6 one	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 one	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flopped	nsubj
8	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 tent	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tent	nmod:poss
11	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flopped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 called	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 one	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 mule	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mule	det
18	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 do	obj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	parataxis
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	must · perfect	neck	the one			tree rules
2	flop	past	the one			my tent	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle	neck	the one not said here	the mule		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Topic to mule=Recipient
4	do in a quote	shall	neck	the one			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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