The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 117

The camel doubled up camel-fashion, like a two-foot rule, and sat down whimpering.

Who acts: camel · What happens: double up, sit down, whimper · To what, where: camel fashion

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), 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 camel	det
2	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doubled	nsubj
3	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 doubled	compound:prt
5	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fashion	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 camel	punct
7	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doubled	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rule	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	14 rule	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rule	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 foot	nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 two	punct
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rule	compound
14	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doubled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 doubled	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	whimpering	whimper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sat	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 doubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	double up	past	the camel	camel fashion	like a foot rule	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fashion=Patient
2	sit down	past	the camel not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	whimper	gerund	the camel not said here			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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