The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 11

Two hours later, as Petersen Sahib was eating early breakfast, his elephants, who had been double chained that night, began to trumpet, and Pudmini, mired to the shoulders, with Kala Nag, very footsore, shambled into the camp.

Who acts: Petersen, elephants, Pudmini · What happens: eat, be, begin, trumpet, mire, shamble · To what, where: early breakfast, camp

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 (Petersen, elephants, Pudmini), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 eating	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eating	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 eating	mark
6	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eating	nsubj
7	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Petersen	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eating	aux
9	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breakfast	amod
11	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eating	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 elephants	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 elephants	nmod:poss
14	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 breakfast	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chained	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 chained	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 chained	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 chained	cop
19	double	double	ADV	_	20 chained	advmod
20	chained	chain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 elephants	acl:relcl
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chained	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 chained	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 trumpet	mark
26	trumpet	trumpet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mired	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mired	cc
29	Pudmini	Pudmini	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 mired	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mired	punct
31	mired	mire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 eating	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 shoulders	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shoulders	det
34	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 mired	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Kala	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 Kala	case
37	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 mired	obl:agent
38	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Kala	flat
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 footsore	punct
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 footsore	advmod
41	footsore	footsore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mired	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 shambled	punct
43	shambled	shamble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 footsore	conj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 camp	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 camp	det
46	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 shambled	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	Petersen	early breakfast and Petersen's elephants			late property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
2	is	past · perfect	Petersen's elephants			night	chain, double property	tree rules
3	begin	past	Petersen's elephants not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	trumpet	to-infinitive	Petersen's elephants not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mire	participle	Pudmini				to the shoulders	tree rules
6	shamble	participle	Pudmini not said here		the camp			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into camp=Destination

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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