The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 12

Mowgli picked up some creepers and began to work them in and out, and the monkeys tried to imitate; but in a very few minutes they lost interest and began to pull their friends’ tails or jump up and down on all fours, coughing.

Who acts: Mowgli, monkeys · What happens: pick up, begin, work, try, imitate, lose · To what, where: creepers, interest, tails, fours

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 (Mowgli, monkeys), 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	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 creepers	det
5	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 picked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 work	mark
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 work	obj
11	in	in	ADV	_	9 work	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 out	cc
13	out	out	ADV	_	11 in	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tried	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monkeys	det
17	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tried	nsubj
18	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 imitate	mark
20	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tried	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 lost	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 lost	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 minutes	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 minutes	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 few	advmod
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 minutes	amod
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lost	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lost	nsubj
29	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	parataxis
30	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lost	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lost	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 pull	mark
34	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 friends	nmod:poss
36	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 tails	nmod:poss
37	’	's	PART	_	36 friends	case
38	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 pull	obj
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 jump	cc
40	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 pull	conj
41	up	up	ADV	_	40 jump	advmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 down	cc
43	down	down	ADV	_	41 up	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 fours	case
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 fours	det
46	fours	four	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 jump	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 coughing	punct
48	coughing	cough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 jump	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pick up	past	Mowgli	some creepers			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creeper=Topic
2	begin	past	Mowgli not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	work	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	creepers = creeper			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material
4	try	past	the monkeys				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	imitate not said to happen	to-infinitive	the monkeys not said here				vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	lose	past	monkeys = monkey	interest		minute	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality
7	begin	past	monkeys = monkey not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	pull	to-infinitive	monkeys = monkey not said here	monkeys's friends's tails			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
9	jump up	infinitive	monkeys = monkey not said here		all fours		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on four=Trajectory
10	cough	gerund	monkeys = monkey not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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