The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 37

“My head is ringing like a bee tree,” said a sullen little voice over their heads, and Mowgli slid down a tree trunk very angry and indignant, adding as he reached the ground: “I come for Bagheera and not for thee, fat old Baloo!”

Who acts: head, sullen little voice, Mowgli · What happens: ring, say, slide down, add, reach, come · To what, where: tree trunk, ground · 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, sullen little voice, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 ringing	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ringing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ringing	aux
5	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ringing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ringing	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ringing	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 voice	det
14	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voice	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voice	amod
16	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 heads	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 heads	nmod:poss
19	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 voice	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 slid	cc
22	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 slid	nsubj
23	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 slid	compound:prt
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 trunk	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trunk	compound
27	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slid	obj
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 angry	advmod
29	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trunk	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 indignant	cc
31	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 angry	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 adding	punct
33	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 slid	advcl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 reached	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 reached	nsubj
36	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 adding	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ground	det
38	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 reached	obj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 come	punct
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 come	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 come	nsubj
42	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 Bagheera	case
44	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 come	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 thee	cc
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 thee	advmod
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 thee	case
48	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 Bagheera	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Baloo	punct
50	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 Baloo	amod
51	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 Baloo	amod
52	Baloo	baloo	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Bagheera	appos
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	52 Baloo	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	52 Baloo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ring in a quote	present · progressive	My head		like a bee tree	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	a sullen little voice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	slide down	past	Mowgli	a tree trunk		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Agent
4	add speech: assert	gerund	Mowgli not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	reach	past	Mowgli	the ground		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
6	come in a quote	present	a sullen little voice = voice		for Bagheera	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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