The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 9

Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day’s lesson to Baloo.

Who acts: Bagheera, pet, Mowgli · What happens: come, lounge, see, get on, purr, recite · To what, where: jungle, tree, lesson, Baloo · 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 (Bagheera, pet, 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 come	advmod
2	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Panther	det
4	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Panther	compound
5	Panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	lounging	lounge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 come	xcomp
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 jungle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jungle	det
11	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lounging	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lounging	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 getting	advmod
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pet	nmod:poss
16	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 getting	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 getting	aux
18	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 see	ccomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 getting	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 purr	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 purr	cc
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 purr	aux
23	purr	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 purr	obl
27	against	against	ADP	_	29 tree	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tree	det
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 purr	obl
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 recited	mark
31	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 recited	nsubj
32	recited	recite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 purr	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lesson	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 day	case
36	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 recited	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 Baloo	case
38	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 recited	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	would	Bagheera				sometimes property	tree rules
2	lounge	gerund	Bagheera not said here			the jungle		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through jungle=Location
3	see	to-infinitive	Bagheera not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	get on	past · progressive	Panther's pet					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	purr	would	Bagheera not said here			a tree	with Panther's head	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against tree=Location
6	recite	past	Mowgli	the day's lesson	Baloo			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic to baloo=Recipient

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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