The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 56

There was a howl of fright and rage, and then as Bagheera tripped on the rolling kicking bodies beneath him, a monkey shouted: “There is only one here!

Who acts: howl, Bagheera, rolling, fright · What happens: be, trip, kick, shout, howl · To what, where: rolling, bodies, monkey, one · 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 (howl, Bagheera, rolling, fright), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 howl	det
4	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fright	case
6	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 howl	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rage	cc
8	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fright	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tripped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tripped	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 tripped	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 tripped	mark
13	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tripped	nsubj
14	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 rolling	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rolling	det
17	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tripped	obl
18	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 rolling	acl
19	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kicking	obj
20	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kicking	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 monkey	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 monkey	det
24	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rolling	conj
25	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 monkey	acl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
28	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 is	expl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 one	cop
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 one	advmod
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tripped	obl
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 one	advmod
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a howl of fright and rage		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	trip	past	Bagheera		the rolling and a monkey	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rolling=Trajectory
3	kick	gerund	the rolling and a monkey not said here	bodies			beneath howl	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Patient beneath he=Location
4	shout speech: express	participle		a monkey not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		one	here			tree rules
6	howl		fright and rage					nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=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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