The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 24

No sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful.

Who acts: Baloo, monkeys · What happens: walk, pull back, tell, not know, be, pinch · To what, where: Baloo · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Baloo, 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 walked	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wall	compound
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 pulled	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monkeys	det
12	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pulled	nsubj
13	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pulled	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	13 pulled	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 telling	punct
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 pulled	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 telling	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 know	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 know	advmod
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 telling	advcl
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 happy	advmod
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 know	ccomp
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 happy	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 happy	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pinching	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pinching	cc
30	pinching	pinch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 walked	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pinching	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 make	mark
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 pinching	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 make	obj
35	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 make	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Baloo			to the city wall result; soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wall=Result
2	pull back	past	the monkeys	Baloo			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the monkeys not said here		Baloo		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	not know	past · do-support	Baloo				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	Baloo			happy property	tree rules
6	pinch	gerund	Baloo not said here	Baloo			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	make	to-infinitive	Baloo not said here	Baloo		grateful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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