The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 21

Little Toomai lay back and slept all through the long afternoon and into the twilight, and while he slept Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa followed the track of the two elephants for fifteen miles across the hills.

Who acts: Little Toomai, Toomai · What happens: lie back, sleep, follow · To what, where: Petersen, track, hills

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 (Little Toomai, Toomai), 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	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 slept	cc
6	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	11 afternoon	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 afternoon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 afternoon	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 afternoon	amod
11	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 twilight	cc
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 twilight	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 twilight	det
15	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 afternoon	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 followed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 followed	cc
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 slept	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 slept	nsubj
20	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 followed	advcl
21	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 slept	obj
22	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Petersen	flat
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Machua	cc
24	Machua	Machua	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Petersen	conj
25	Appa	Appa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Machua	flat
26	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 track	det
28	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 followed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 elephants	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 elephants	det
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 elephants	nummod
32	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 track	nmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 miles	case
34	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 miles	nummod
35	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 followed	obl
36	across	across	ADP	_	38 hills	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hills	det
38	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 followed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie back	past	Little Toomai					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	past	Little Toomai not said here			afternoon		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	past	Toomai	Petersen and Machua				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petersen=Theme
4	follow	past	Little Toomai not said here	the track of the two elephants	the hills		for fifteen miles	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent track=Theme across hill=Trajectory

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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