The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 10

The monkeys dragged him into the Cold Lairs late in the afternoon, and instead of going to sleep, as Mowgli would have done after a long journey, they joined hands and danced about and sang their foolish songs.

Who acts: monkeys, Mowgli · What happens: drag, go, sleep, do, join, dance · To what, where: Mowgli, Cold Lairs, hands, foolish songs

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkeys, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dragged	nsubj
3	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dragged	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 Lairs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lairs	det
7	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Lairs	amod
8	Lairs	lair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dragged	obl
9	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 Lairs	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 afternoon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 afternoon	det
12	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 late	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 going	cc
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 going	mark
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dragged	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sleep	mark
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 done	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 done	mark
22	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 done	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 done	aux
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 dragged	conj
26	after	after	ADP	_	29 journey	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 journey	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 journey	amod
29	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 done	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 joined	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 joined	nsubj
32	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dragged	parataxis
33	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 joined	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 danced	cc
35	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 joined	conj
36	about	about	ADV	_	35 danced	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sang	cc
38	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 danced	conj
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 songs	nmod:poss
40	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 songs	amod
41	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sang	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	the monkeys	Mowgli	the Cold Lairs			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	go	gerund	the monkeys not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sleep	to-infinitive	the monkeys not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	would · perfect	Mowgli			after a long journey		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	join	past	monkeys = monkey	hands				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	dance	past	monkeys = monkey not said here				about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sing speech: express	past	monkeys = monkey not said here	monkeys's foolish songs				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
8	sing		monkeys = monkey					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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