The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 146

The second squadron of the Lancers shot by, and there was the troop-horse, with his tail like spun silk, his head pulled into his breast, one ear forward and one back, setting the time for all his squadron, his legs going as smoothly as waltz music.

Who acts: second squadron, head, legs · What happens: shoot, be, spin, pull, set, go · To what, where: troop horse, one ear, breast

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 (second squadron, head, legs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 squadron	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 squadron	amod
3	squadron	squadron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shot	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Lancers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lancers	det
6	Lancers	lancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 squadron	nmod
7	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	7 shot	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 horse	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 was	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 horse	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
14	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horse	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 troop	punct
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shot	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tail	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 tail	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tail	nmod:poss
20	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shot	obl
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 silk	case
22	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 silk	amod
23	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tail	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pulled	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pulled	nsubj
27	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shot	parataxis
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 breast	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 breast	nmod:poss
30	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pulled	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ear	punct
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 ear	nummod
33	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pulled	obl
34	forward	forward	ADV	_	27 pulled	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 one	cc
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 pulled	obl
37	back	back	ADV	_	36 one	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 setting	punct
39	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 pulled	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 time	det
41	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 setting	obj
42	for	for	ADP	_	45 squadron	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 squadron	det:predet
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 squadron	nmod:poss
45	squadron	squadron	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 setting	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 legs	punct
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 legs	nmod:poss
48	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 squadron	appos
49	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 legs	acl
50	as	as	ADV	_	51 smoothly	advmod
51	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	_	49 going	advmod
52	as	as	ADP	_	54 music	case
53	waltz	waltz	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 music	compound
54	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 smoothly	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	the second squadron of the Lancers				with squadron's tail like spun silk	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tail=Instrument
2	is a	past		the troop horse				tree rules
3	spin	participle						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	pull	past	squadron's head	one ear	squadron's breast		one obl; forward property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	set	gerund	squadron's head not said here			time	for squadron's squadron	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for squadron=Beneficiary
6	go	gerund	squadron's legs not said here				smoothly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/146/