The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 14

Then he pressed his face close to the window and watched the fire on the hearth.

Who acts: Akela · What happens: press, watch · To what, where: face, fire, hearth

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 pressed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pressed	nsubj
3	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	obj
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pressed	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 watched	cc
11	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watched	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 hearth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hearth	det
16	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watched	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	Akela	Akela's face			then	close property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	watch	past	Akela not said here	the fire		the hearth			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

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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