The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 108

He had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches; and they could hear coughings and howlings and angry jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches.

Who acts: head, nuts · What happens: speak, spatter down, hear · To what, where: shower, branches, coughings, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, nuts), 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	4 spoken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 spoken	advmod
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 spattered	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shower	det
7	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spattered	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 nuts	case
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shower	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 twigs	cc
11	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nuts	conj
12	spattered	spatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spoken	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 spattered	compound:prt
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 branches	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 branches	det
16	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spattered	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hear	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spoken	conj
22	coughings	coughing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hear	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 howlings	cc
24	howlings	howling	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 coughings	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 jumpings	cc
26	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 jumpings	amod
27	jumpings	jumping	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 coughings	conj
28	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 up	advmod
29	up	up	ADV	_	21 hear	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 air	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obl
33	among	among	ADP	_	36 branches	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 branches	det
35	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 branches	amod
36	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hear	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect	head			hardly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spatter down	participle · passive		a shower of nuts and twigs	the branches		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme through branch=Destination
3	hear	could	nuts = nut	coughings and howlings and angry jumpings	the air	among the thin branches	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer coughing=Stimulus

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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