The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 75

Then you stand still and keep quiet--never ask a man to hold your head, young un--keep quiet while the guns are being put together, and then you watch the little poppy shells drop down into the tree-tops ever so far below.”

Who acts: you, little poppy shells · What happens: stand, keep, not ask, hold, put together, watch · To what, where: man, head, guns, tree tops

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little poppy shells), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stand	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stand	nsubj
3	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 stand	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stand	conj
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 ask	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 ask	advmod
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stand	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hold	mark
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ask	xcomp
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 un	punct
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 un	amod
19	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	conj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 keep	punct
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hold	conj
22	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 keep	xcomp
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 put	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 guns	det
25	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 put	nsubj:pass
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux:pass
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 put	aux:pass
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 keep	xcomp
29	together	together	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 watch	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 watch	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 watch	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 watch	nsubj
34	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 drop	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shells	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 shells	amod
37	poppy	poppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shells	compound
38	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 drop	nsubj
39	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stand	conj
40	down	down	ADV	_	39 drop	advmod
41	into	into	ADP	_	45 tops	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tops	det
43	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tops	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 tree	punct
45	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 drop	obl
46	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	47 so	advmod
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 far	advmod
48	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 below	advmod
49	below	below	ADV	_	39 drop	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stand	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	you				then; still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		a man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
4	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	your head and young un					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	keep	infinitive	you not said here					quiet property	tree rules
6	put together	present · passive		the guns				together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
7	watch	present	you				then		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
8	drop down	present	the little poppy shells			the tree tops		below, down property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into top=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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