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The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 110

They clung around the necks of the big stone idols and shrieked as they skipped along the battlements, while Mowgli, dancing in the summerhouse, put his eye to the screenwork and hooted owl-fashion between his front teeth, to show his derision and contempt.

Who acts: monkeys, Mowgli · What happens: cling, shriek, skip, dance, put, hoot · To what, where: Mowgli, necks, battlements, summerhouse, eye, owl fashion

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

nsubjcasedetoblcasedetamodcompoundnmodccconjmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctmarkoblpunctadvclcasedetoblpunctadvclnmod:possobjcasedetoblccconjcompoundpunctobjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctmarkadvclnmod:possobjccconjpunctrootTheyPRONclungVERBaroundADPtheDETnecksNOUNofADPtheDETbigADJstoneNOUNidolsNOUNandCCONJshriekedVERBasSCONJtheyPRONskippedVERBalongADPtheDETbattlementsNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJMowgliPROPN,PUNCTdancingVERBinADPtheDETsummerhouseNOUN,PUNCTputVERBhisPRONeyeNOUNtoADPtheDETscreenworkNOUNandCCONJhootedVERBowlNOUN-PUNCTfashionNOUNbetweenADPhisPRONfrontADJteethNOUN,PUNCTtoPARTshowVERBhisPRONderisionNOUNandCCONJcontemptNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 clungnsubj
2clungclingVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aroundaroundADP_5 neckscase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 necksdet
5necksneckNOUNNumber=Plur2 clungobl
6ofofADP_10 idolscase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 idolsdet
8bigbigADJDegree=Pos10 idolsamod
9stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing10 idolscompound
10idolsidolNOUNNumber=Plur5 necksnmod
11andandCCONJ_12 shriekedcc
12shriekedshriekVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 idolsconj
13asasSCONJ_15 skippedmark
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs15 skippednsubj
15skippedskipVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 shriekedadvcl
16alongalongADP_18 battlementscase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 battlementsdet
18battlementsbattlementNOUNNumber=Plur15 skippedobl
19,,PUNCT_21 Mowglipunct
20whilewhileSCONJ_21 Mowglimark
21MowgliMowgliPROPNNumber=Sing2 clungobl
22,,PUNCT_23 dancingpunct
23dancingdanceVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 clungadvcl
24ininADP_26 summerhousecase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 summerhousedet
26summerhousesummerhouseNOUNNumber=Sing23 dancingobl
27,,PUNCT_28 putpunct
28putputVERBVerbForm=Inf23 dancingadvcl
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 eyenmod:poss
30eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing28 putobj
31totoADP_33 screenworkcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 screenworkdet
33screenworkscreenworkNOUNNumber=Sing28 putobl
34andandCCONJ_35 hootedcc
35hootedhootVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 clungconj
36owlowlNOUNNumber=Sing38 fashioncompound
37--PUNCT_36 owlpunct
38fashionfashionNOUNNumber=Sing35 hootedobj
39betweenbetweenADP_42 teethcase
40hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 teethnmod:poss
41frontfrontADJDegree=Pos42 teethamod
42teethtoothNOUNNumber=Plur35 hootedobl
43,,PUNCT_45 showpunct
44totoPART_45 showmark
45showshowVERBVerbForm=Inf35 hootedadvcl
46hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs47 derisionnmod:poss
47derisionderisionNOUNNumber=Sing45 showobj
48andandCCONJ_49 contemptcc
49contemptcontemptNOUNNumber=Sing47 derisionconj
50..PUNCT_2 clungpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1clingpastmonkeys = monkeyMowglithe necks of the big stone idolsvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around neck=Location
2shriekparticiplemonkeys = monkey not said herevn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3skippastmonkeys = monkeythe battlementsvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along battlement=Trajectory
4dancegerundmonkeys = monkey not said herethe summerhousevn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in summerhouse=Location
5putinfinitivemonkeys = monkey not said hereMowgli's eyeto the screenworkvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal
6hootpastmonkeys = monkey not said hereowl fashionbetween Mowgli's front teethvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fashion=Theme
7showto-infinitivemonkeys = monkey not said hereMowgli's derision and contemptvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent derision=Recipient
8derideMowglinom derision «communication transitive»: 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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