The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 99

Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.

Who acts: I, mule, harness · What happens: get, go, hear, pass, shake, jingle · To what, where: sleep, jingle, me, wet ears

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 (I, mule, harness), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 getting	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 getting	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 getting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ready	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 sleep	case
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sleep	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 jingle	det
14	jingle	jingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 harness	case
16	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 jingle	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grunt	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 grunt	det
19	grunt	grunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 harness	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 passed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 passed	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mule	det
23	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passed	nsubj
24	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 passed	iobj
26	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 passed	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ears	nmod:poss
28	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ears	amod
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shaking	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 getting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	I				ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	to-infinitive	I not said here			sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
3	hear	past	I	a jingle of harness and a grunt				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer jingle=Stimulus
4	pass	past	a mule		me			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory
5	shake	gerund	a mule not said here	Vixen's wet ears				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
6	jingle		harness and a grunt					nom jingle «event intransitive»: of=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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