The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 54
The cloud hid the moon, and as Mowgli wondered what would come next he heard Bagheera’s light feet on the terrace.
Who acts: cloud, Mowgli · What happens: hide, wonder, come, hear · To what, where: moon, light feet, terrace · 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 (cloud, 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 cloud | det |
| 2 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wondered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wondered | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 wondered | mark |
| 9 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wondered | nsubj |
| 10 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wondered | ccomp |
| 14 | next | next | ADV | _ | 16 heard | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | advcl |
| 17 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Bagheera | case |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feet | compound |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heard | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 terrace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 terrace | det |
| 23 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | the cloud | the moon | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | Mowgli | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | would | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hear | past | Mowgli | Bagheera's light feet | the terrace | next property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus |
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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