The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 34

I remember now--if it is not a dream--how, before I was a Wolf, I lay beside the Red Flower, and it was warm and pleasant.”

Who acts: I, No. · What happens: remember, not be, be, lay · To what, where: dream, Red Flower

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 (I, No.), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 remember	advmod
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 dream	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 dream	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dream	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dream	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 dream	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dream	det
10	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	parataxis
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 Wolf	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 Wolf	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Wolf	punct
14	before	before	ADP	_	18 Wolf	case
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Wolf	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Wolf	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Wolf	det
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dream	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Wolf	parataxis
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	25 Flower	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Flower	det
24	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Flower	flat
25	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 warm	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 warm	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 warm	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 warm	cop
30	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lay	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pleasant	cc
32	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 warm	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 Wolf	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 dream	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I			now		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	not is a a condition, not said to happen	present	No.	a dream				tree rules
3	is	past	I			before a Wolf		tree rules
4	lay	present	I		the Red Flower			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside flower=Destination
5	is	past	No.				warm property	tree rules
6	be		No. not said here					tree rules

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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