The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 40

Mowgli was still deeply interested in the pebbles, and he did not notice when the wolves came and looked at him one by one.

Who acts: Mowgli, wolves · What happens: be, not notice, come, look · To what, where: pebbles, one

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 (Mowgli, wolves), 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	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 interested	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 interested	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 interested	advmod
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	5 interested	advmod
5	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pebbles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pebbles	det
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 interested	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 notice	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 notice	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 notice	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 notice	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 notice	advmod
14	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 interested	parataxis
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wolves	det
17	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 notice	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looked	cc
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	obl
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 looked	obl:unmarked
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 one	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 interested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mowgli		the pebbles	still	deeply, interested property	tree rules
2	not notice	past · do-support	Mowgli					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	past	the wolves					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	past	the wolves not said here	one by one			at Mowgli	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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