The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 10

The Lone Wolf must have sprung and missed his hold, for Mowgli heard the snap of his teeth and then a yelp as the Sambhur knocked him over with his forefoot.

Who acts: Lone Wolf, Mowgli, Sambhur, Akela · What happens: spring, miss, hear, knock over, hold, snap · To what, where: hold, snap, Akela, teeth

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lone Wolf, Mowgli, Sambhur, Akela), 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 Wolf	det
2	Lone	Lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Wolf	amod
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sprung	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sprung	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sprung	aux
6	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 missed	cc
8	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprung	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hold	nmod:poss
10	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 missed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 heard	case
13	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprung	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snap	det
16	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 teeth	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 teeth	nmod:poss
19	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 snap	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 yelp	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 yelp	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 yelp	det
23	yelp	yelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 teeth	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 knocked	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Sambhur	det
26	Sambhur	Sambhur	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 knocked	nsubj
27	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knocked	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	27 knocked	compound:prt
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 forefoot	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 forefoot	nmod:poss
32	forefoot	forefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knocked	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sprung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spring	must · perfect	the Lone Wolf			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	miss	past	the Lone Wolf not said here	Akela's hold		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	hear	past	Mowgli	the snap of Akela's teeth and a yelp		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snap=Stimulus
4	knock over	past	the Sambhur	Akela	with Akela's forefoot	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with forefoot=Instrument
5	hold		Akela			nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	snap			Akela's teeth and a yelp		nom snap «act transitive»: of=patient

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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