The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 118

There was a regular beat of hoofs in the darkness, and a big troop-horse cantered up as steadily as though he were on parade, jumped a gun tail, and landed close to the mule.

Who acts: beat · What happens: canter up, be, land · To what, where: big troop horse, parade

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 (beat), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 jumped	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beat	det
4	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beat	amod
5	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 hoofs	case
7	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beat	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 darkness	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 darkness	det
10	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hoofs	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 horse	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 horse	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 horse	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 horse	amod
15	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 horse	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 troop	punct
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
18	cantered	canter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 horse	acl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 cantered	compound:prt
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 steadily	advmod
21	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	18 cantered	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	27 parade	advmod
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 parade	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 parade	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 parade	cop
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 parade	case
27	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cantered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 jumped	punct
29	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 tail	det
31	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tail	compound
32	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 jumped	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 landed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 landed	cc
35	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 jumped	conj
36	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 landed	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 mule	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 mule	det
39	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 landed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	canter up	participle		a big troop horse not said here		steadily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	beat		parade		tree rules
3	is	past				jump property	tree rules
4	land	past				to the mule; close property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «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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