The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 182

As me and my companions were scrambling up a hill, The path was lost in rolling stones, but we went forward still; For we can wriggle and climb, my lads, and turn up everywhere, Oh, it’s our delight on a mountain height, with a leg or two to spare!

Who acts: me, we, our · What happens: scramble up, lose, go, wriggle, climb, turn up · To what, where: hill, path, rolling stones, lads

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 (me, we, our), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	7 scrambling	mark
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 scrambling	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 companions	cc
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 companions	nmod:poss
5	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 me	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scrambling	aux
7	scrambling	scramble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lost	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 scrambling	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scrambling	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scrambling	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 path	det
13	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux:pass
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 stones	case
17	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stones	compound
18	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lost	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	conj
23	forward	forward	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	still	still	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 wriggle	punct
26	For	for	SCONJ	_	29 wriggle	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 wriggle	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 wriggle	aux
29	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lost	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 climb	cc
31	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wriggle	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lads	punct
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 lads	nmod:poss
34	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 climb	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 turn	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 turn	cc
37	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 wriggle	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 turn	compound:prt
39	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 turn	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ’s	punct
41	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	44 ’s	discourse
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Oh	punct
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 ’s	nsubj
44	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 turn	conj
45	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 delight	nmod:poss
46	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ’s	obj
47	on	on	ADP	_	50 height	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 height	det
49	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 height	compound
50	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ’s	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 leg	punct
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 leg	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 leg	det
54	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 height	appos
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 two	cc
56	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 leg	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 spare	mark
58	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 leg	acl
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scramble up	past · progressive	me	a hill				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme
2	lose	past · passive		the path	rolling stones			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	go	past	we			still	forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wriggle	can	we					vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	climb	infinitive	we not said here	my lads				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	turn up	present	we not said here				everywhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	spare	to-infinitive	we not said here					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
8	delight		our					nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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