The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 124

Of course Mowgli, as a woodcutter’s child, inherited all sorts of instincts, and used to make little huts of fallen branches without thinking how he came to do it.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: inherit, use, make, fall, think, come · To what, where: sorts, little huts, branch, instincts · 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 (Mowgli), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 Mowgli	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 inherited	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mowgli	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woodcutter	det
7	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 child	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 woodcutter	case
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 inherited	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
11	inherited	inherit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sorts	det
13	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 inherited	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 instincts	case
15	instincts	instinct	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sorts	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 used	cc
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 inherited	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 used	advcl
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 huts	amod
22	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 branches	case
24	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 branches	amod
25	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 huts	nmod
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	27 thinking	mark
27	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 make	advcl
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 came	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thinking	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 came	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 inherited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inherit	participle		all sorts of instincts	of Mowgli; as a woodcutter's child	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
2	use	participle				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive		little huts of fallen branches		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product
4	fall	participle				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	gerund				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	come	past	Mowgli			tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	branch		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
8	sort			instincts		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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