The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 136

Billy the Mule stumped off with the swaggering limp of an old campaigner, as the troop-horse’s head came nuzzling into my breast, and I gave him biscuits, while Vixen, who is a most conceited little dog, told him fibs about the scores of horses that she and I kept.

Who acts: Billy, head, I, Vixen, old campaigner · What happens: stump off, swagger, come, nuzzle, give, be · To what, where: breast, biscuits, mule, conceited little dog, fibs, horses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Billy, head, I, Vixen), 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	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stumped	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mule	det
3	Mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stumped	nsubj
4	stumped	stump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 stumped	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 limp	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 limp	det
8	swaggering	swagger	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 limp	amod
9	limp	limp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stumped	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 campaigner	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 campaigner	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 campaigner	amod
13	campaigner	campaigner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 limp	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horse	det
17	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 horse	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 troop	punct
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 head	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 horse	case
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stumped	conj
23	nuzzling	nuzzle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 came	advcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 breast	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 breast	nmod:poss
26	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nuzzling	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gave	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 gave	nsubj
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stumped	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	iobj
32	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 gave	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Vixen	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 Vixen	mark
35	Vixen	Vixen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 biscuits	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dog	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 dog	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 dog	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 dog	det
40	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	41 conceited	advmod
41	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dog	amod
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dog	amod
43	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Vixen	appos
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 told	punct
45	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gave	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 told	iobj
47	fibs	fib	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 told	iobj
48	about	about	ADP	_	50 scores	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 scores	det
50	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 fibs	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 horses	case
52	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 scores	nmod
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 kept	obj
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 kept	nsubj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 I	cc
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 she	conj
57	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 horses	acl:relcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stump off	past	Billy				with the swaggering limp of a old campaigner	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	swagger	gerund						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the troop horse's head					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	nuzzle	gerund	the troop horse's head not said here			my breast		vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	past	I	biscuits	mule			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient biscuit=Theme
6	is a	present	Vixen	a conceited little dog				tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	past	I not said here		fibs about the scores of horses			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fib=Topic
8	keep	past	Vixen	horses				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
9	limp		a old campaigner					nom limp «act intransitive»: of=agent
10	score			horses				nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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