The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 73

And the young wolves would growl and bristle.

Who acts: young wolves · What happens: growl, bristle

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 (young 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 growl	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolves	amod
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 growl	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 growl	aux
6	growl	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bristle	cc
8	bristle	bristle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 growl	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 growl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl	would	the young wolves						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bristle	infinitive	the young wolves not said here						vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location

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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