The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 56

When he felt dirty or hot he swam in the forest pools; and when he wanted honey (Baloo told him that honey and nuts were just as pleasant to eat as raw meat) he climbed up for it, and that Bagheera showed him how to do.

Who acts: Mowgli, Baloo, honey, Bagheera · What happens: feel, swim, want, tell, be, eat · To what, where: forest pools, honey, Mowgli · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Baloo, honey, Bagheera), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 felt	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 swam	advcl
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 hot	cc
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dirty	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swam	nsubj
8	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 pools	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pools	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pools	compound
12	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swam	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 wanted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wanted	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 wanted	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 swam	parataxis
18	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wanted	obj
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wanted	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 pleasant	mark
24	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pleasant	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 nuts	cc
26	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 honey	conj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pleasant	cop
28	just	just	ADV	_	30 pleasant	advmod
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 pleasant	advmod
30	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 climbed	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 pleasant	xcomp
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 meat	case
34	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 meat	amod
35	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eat	obl
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 pleasant	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 climbed	nsubj
38	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	parataxis
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 climbed	compound:prt
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 climbed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 showed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 showed	cc
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 showed	mark
45	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 showed	nsubj
46	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 swam	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 showed	iobj
48	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	50 do	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 do	mark
50	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 showed	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Mowgli				dirty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	swim	past	Mowgli			the forest pools		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory
3	want	past	Mowgli	honey				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot honey=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Baloo		Mowgli			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is	past	honey and nuts				pleasant property	tree rules
6	eat	to-infinitive	honey and nuts not said here				as raw meat	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	climb up	past	Mowgli				for honey	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	show	past	Bagheera		Mowgli			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
9	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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