The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 12

Little Toomai’s face was gray and pinched, and his hair was full of leaves and drenched with dew, but he tried to salute Petersen Sahib, and cried faintly: “The dance--the elephant dance!

Who acts: face, hair, Pudmini · What happens: be, pinch, drench, try, salute, cry · To what, where: Petersen, dance

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 (face, hair, 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Toomai	amod
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 face	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Toomai	case
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gray	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gray	cop
6	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pinched	cc
8	pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gray	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 full	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 full	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 full	cop
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gray	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 leaves	case
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 full	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drenched	cc
18	drenched	drench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 full	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 dew	case
20	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drenched	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tried	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 tried	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tried	nsubj
24	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gray	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 salute	mark
26	salute	salute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tried	xcomp
27	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 salute	obj
28	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Petersen	flat
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cried	cc
31	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tried	conj
32	faintly	faintly	ADV	_	31 cried	advmod
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 dance	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 dance	punct
35	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dance	det
36	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cried	obl
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 dance	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dance	det
39	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dance	compound
40	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dance	conj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 gray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Little Toomai's face		gray property	tree rules
2	pinch	participle	Little Toomai's face not said here			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Toomai's hair		of leaves; full property	tree rules
4	drench	participle	Toomai's hair not said here		with dew	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dew=Theme
5	try	past	Pudmini			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	salute not said to happen	to-infinitive	Pudmini not said here	Petersen		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petersen=Topic
7	cry speech: express	past	Pudmini not said here	the dance and the elephant dance	faintly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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