The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 105

And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.

Who acts: most, tail · What happens: begin, gather, switch

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 (most, tail), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 began	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wolves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolves	det
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 most	nmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 gather	mark
8	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	round	round	ADP	_	10 Shere	case
10	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gather	obl
11	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Shere	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beginning	punct
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 tail	nmod:poss
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beginning	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 beginning	aux
16	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gather	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 switch	mark
18	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 beginning	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	most of the wolves		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	gather	to-infinitive	most of the wolves not said here	round Shere	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past · progressive	tail		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	switch	to-infinitive	tail not said here		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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