The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 105

They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera--the Panther--and no man’s plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.

Who acts: muscles, I, paw · What happens: feed, feel, be, break, come away, blow · To what, where: me, bars, Bagheera, silly lock

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (muscles, I, paw), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 bars	case
5	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fed	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 pan	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pan	det
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pan	compound
9	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fed	obl
10	till	till	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 night	nummod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fed	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 Bagheera	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Bagheera	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Bagheera	cop
18	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 felt	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 Panther	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Panther	det
21	Panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Bagheera	appos
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 plaything	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 plaything	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plaything	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 man	case
27	plaything	plaything	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Panther	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 broke	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 broke	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 broke	nsubj
31	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 felt	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lock	det
33	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lock	amod
34	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 broke	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 blow	case
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 blow	nummod
37	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 broke	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 paw	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 paw	nmod:poss
40	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 blow	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 came	cc
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 broke	conj
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 came	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	muscles = muscle		me	bars		from a iron pan	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	feel	past	I				night		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past	I	Bagheera					tree rules
4	break	past	I	the silly lock				with one blow of my paw	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lock=Patient with blow=Instrument
5	come away	past	I not said here					away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	blow		my paw						nom blow «act 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/2/105/