The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 57

Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Brother,” and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.

Who acts: Bagheera, Mowgli · What happens: lie out, call, come along, cling, fling · To what, where: branch, Mowgli, branches · 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 (Bagheera, Mowgli), 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	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lie	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 lie	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 branch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 branch	det
7	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lie	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 call	cc
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct
12	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	parataxis
13	along	along	ADV	_	12 Come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Brother	punct
15	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Brother	amod
16	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Come	vocative
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Brother	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cling	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 first	case
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 cling	obl
22	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 cling	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 cling	aux
24	cling	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 sloth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sloth	det
27	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cling	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fling	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 fling	cc
30	afterward	afterward	SCONJ	_	33 fling	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fling	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fling	aux
33	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	conj
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 fling	obj
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 branches	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 branches	det
37	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fling	obl
38	almost	almost	ADV	_	40 boldly	advmod
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 boldly	advmod
40	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 fling	advmod
41	as	as	ADP	_	44 ape	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ape	det
43	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ape	amod
44	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 boldly	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie out	would	Bagheera		a branch		tree rules
2	call	infinitive	Bagheera not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come along in a quote	infinitive				Little Brother vocative; along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cling	would	Mowgli			like the sloth	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location
5	fling	would	Mowgli	Mowgli	the branches	boldly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme through branch=Destination

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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