The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 151

The rain began to fall again, and for a while it was too misty to see what the troops were doing.

Who acts: rain, it, troops · What happens: begin, fall, be, see, do · 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 (rain, it, troops), 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	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fall	mark
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 fall	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 misty	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 misty	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 while	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 while	det
11	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 misty	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 misty	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 misty	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 misty	advmod
15	misty	misty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 misty	xcomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 doing	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 troops	det
20	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 doing	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 doing	aux
22	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 see	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the rain			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fall	to-infinitive	the rain not said here	again		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	it	while	misty property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	past · progressive	the troops			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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