The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 116

He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a tuft of dried moss that flared up, as all the Council drew back in terror before the leaping flames.

Who acts: man, some, dried moss, Council · What happens: fling, light, dry, flare up, draw back · To what, where: fire pot, ground, tuft, terror

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 (man, some, dried moss, Council), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flung	nsubj
2	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pot	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pot	compound
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lit	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lit	cc
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 lit	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 coals	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coals	det
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coals	amod
15	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 some	nmod
16	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flung	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tuft	det
18	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lit	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 moss	case
20	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 moss	amod
21	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tuft	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 flared	nsubj
23	flared	flare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 moss	acl:relcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 flared	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 drew	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 drew	mark
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 drew	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Council	det
29	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 drew	nsubj
30	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lit	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 drew	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 terror	case
33	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drew	obl
34	before	before	ADP	_	37 flames	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 flames	det
36	leaping	leaping	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flames	compound
37	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 drew	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fling	past	man	the fire pot	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on ground=Destination
2	light	past	some	a tuft of dried moss			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuft=Product
3	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	flare up	past	dried moss				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	draw back	past	the Council		terror	before the leaping flames	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in terror=Destination

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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