The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 161

So Mowgli sat and cried as though his heart would break; and he had never cried in all his life before.

Who acts: Mowgli, heart · What happens: sit, cry, break, not cry · To what, where: life

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 (Mowgli, heart), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cried	cc
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
6	as	as	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 break	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heart	nmod:poss
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 break	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 break	aux
11	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cried	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 cried	advmod
17	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sat	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 life	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 life	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 life	nmod:poss
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	obl
22	before	before	ADV	_	17 cried	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Mowgli			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Mowgli not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	break	would	Mowgli's heart			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	not cry speech: express	past · perfect	heart	Mowgli's life	before property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=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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