The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 50

So she stopped to bully Two Tails in his pickets, and yapped round his big feet.

Who acts: Vixen · What happens: stop, bully, yap · To what, where: Two Tails, pickets

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 stopped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bully	mark
5	bully	bully	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stopped	xcomp
6	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Tails	nummod
7	Tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bully	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pickets	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pickets	nmod:poss
10	pickets	picket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bully	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yapped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 yapped	cc
13	yapped	yap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
14	round	round	ADP	_	17 feet	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feet	amod
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 yapped	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Vixen				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	bully	to-infinitive	Vixen not said here	Two Tails	dog's pickets		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Beneficiary
3	yap	past	Vixen not said here			round dog's big feet	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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