The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 88

Every night a mob of these horses would be sure to break their heel ropes and stampede up and down the camp through the mud in the dark, or the camels would break loose and run about and fall over the ropes of the tents, and you can imagine how pleasant that was for men trying to go to sleep.

Who acts: night, camels, you, that, pleasant men · What happens: be, break, stampede up, run about, fall, imagine · To what, where: heel ropes, mud, ropes, sleep

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 (night, camels, you, that), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sure	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mob	det
4	mob	mob	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sure	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 horses	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 horses	det
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mob	nmod
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sure	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 sure	cop
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 break	mark
12	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sure	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ropes	nmod:poss
14	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ropes	compound
15	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 break	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stampede	cc
17	stampede	stampede	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 break	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 stampede	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 camp	cc
20	down	down	ADP	_	22 camp	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 camp	det
22	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 break	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 mud	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mud	det
25	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 break	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 dark	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dark	det
28	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 break	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 break	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 break	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 camels	det
32	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 break	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 break	aux
34	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sure	parataxis
35	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 break	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 run	cc
37	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 break	conj
38	about	about	ADV	_	37 run	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fall	cc
40	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 break	conj
41	over	over	ADP	_	43 ropes	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ropes	det
43	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 fall	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 tents	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tents	det
46	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 ropes	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 imagine	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 imagine	cc
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 imagine	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 imagine	aux
51	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 break	conj
52	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	53 pleasant	advmod
53	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 men	amod
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 men	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 men	cop
56	for	for	ADP	_	57 men	case
57	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 imagine	obj
58	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 men	acl
59	to	to	PART	_	60 go	mark
60	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 trying	xcomp
61	to	to	ADP	_	62 sleep	case
62	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 go	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	every night			sure property	tree rules
2	break	to-infinitive	every night not said here	horses's heel ropes	the mud	in the dark	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rope=Patient
3	stampede up	infinitive	every night not said here				tree rules
4	break	would	the camels			loose property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	run about	present	the camels not said here			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fall	infinitive	the camels not said here		the ropes of the tents		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over rope=Location
7	imagine	can	you				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	is	past	that			for pleasant men	tree rules
9	try	gerund	pleasant men not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	pleasant men not said here		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location

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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