The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 60

I whistled, and Vixen ran up to me, muddy all over, and licked my nose, and told me a long tale about hunting for me all through the camp.

Who acts: I, Vixen · What happens: whistle, run up, lick, tell, hunt · To what, where: me, nose, long tale, camp · 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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 whistled	nsubj
2	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
5	Vixen	Vixen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 muddy	punct
11	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ran	conj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 over	advmod
13	over	over	ADV	_	11 muddy	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 licked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 licked	cc
16	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 nose	nmod:poss
18	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 licked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tale	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tale	amod
25	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obj
26	about	about	SCONJ	_	27 hunting	mark
27	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 told	advcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 hunting	obl
30	all	all	ADV	_	33 camp	advmod
31	through	through	ADP	_	33 camp	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 camp	det
33	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hunting	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whistled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	I					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run up	past	Vixen		me			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result
3	lick	past	I not said here	my nose				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nose=Source
4	tell speech: assert	past	I not said here	a long tale	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tale=Topic
5	hunt	gerund	I not said here			the camp	for me	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for i=Theme through camp=Location

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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