The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 33

Petersen Sahib ate alone in his tent, but he gave orders that the camp should have two sheep and some fowls, as well as a double ration of flour and rice and salt, for he knew that there would be a feast.

Who acts: Petersen, camp, feast · What happens: eat, give, have, know, be · To what, where: tent, orders, two sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

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, camp, feast), 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	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
2	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Petersen	flat
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 ate	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tent	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tent	nmod:poss
7	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gave	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 camp	det
15	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gave	advcl
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sheep	nummod
19	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fowls	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 fowls	det
22	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sheep	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ration	punct
24	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	29 ration	cc
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 as	fixed
26	as	as	ADP	_	24 as	fixed
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 ration	det
28	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ration	amod
29	ration	ration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 flour	case
31	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ration	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rice	cc
33	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flour	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 salt	cc
35	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flour	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 knew	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 knew	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 knew	nsubj
39	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	parataxis
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 be	mark
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 be	expl
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 be	aux
43	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 knew	ccomp
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 feast	det
45	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 be	nsubj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Petersen		Petersen's tent	alone property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	Petersen	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	have	should	the camp	two sheep and some fowls			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
4	know	past	camp				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	would	a feast		there		vn exist-47.1 «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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