The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 19

So he strode round the corner and met the boy, took the pot from his hand, and disappeared into the mist while the boy howled with fear.

Who acts: cub, boy · What happens: stride, meet, take, disappear, howl · To what, where: corner, boy, pot, hand, mist

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 (cub, boy), 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 strode	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strode	nsubj
3	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 corner	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corner	det
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strode	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 met	cc
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 strode	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 strode	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pot	det
14	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 disappeared	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 disappeared	cc
20	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 mist	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mist	det
23	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 disappeared	obl
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 howled	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boy	det
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 howled	nsubj
27	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 disappeared	advcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 fear	case
29	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 howled	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 strode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stride	past	cub		the corner		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round corner=Trajectory
2	meet	past	cub not said here	the boy			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Co-Agent
3	take	past		the pot	cub's hand		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pot=Theme from hand=Initial_Location
4	disappear	past			the mist		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	howl	past	the boy			with fear	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fear=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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