The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 29

Sore, sleepy, and hungry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were, and how foolish he was to wish to leave them.

Who acts: wall, Mowgli, Bandar log, queens · What happens: be, not help, laugh, begin, tell, leave · To what, where: twenty, wall, queens · 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 (wall, Mowgli, Bandar log, queens), 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	Sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 help	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sleepy	punct
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sore	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hungry	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hungry	cc
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sore	conj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 was	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sore	punct
11	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 help	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 help	advmod
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 help	xcomp
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 began	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 log	det
18	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 log	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Bandar	punct
20	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laughing	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 twenty	punct
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 began	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 twenty	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 help	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 great	advmod
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tell	ccomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wise	cc
34	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 great	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 strong	cc
36	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 great	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gentle	cc
38	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 great	conj
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 foolish	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 foolish	cop
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 foolish	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 foolish	cc
43	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	44 foolish	advmod
44	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 great	conj
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 wish	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 wish	cop
47	to	to	PART	_	48 wish	mark
48	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 foolish	ccomp
49	to	to	PART	_	50 leave	mark
50	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 wish	xcomp
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 leave	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be	past	wall				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not help	could	Mowgli				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	laugh not said to happen	gerund	Mowgli not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	the Bandar log	twenty at a time			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here		wall		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is	past	queens = queen			foolish property	tree rules
7	is	past	wall			wish property	tree rules
8	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	wall not said here	queens = queen			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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