The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 60

A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.

Who acts: fall, Mowgli, Baloo · What happens: train, bruise, be, fall, teach, land · To what, where: trained boy, Baloo, Mowgli, feet

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 (fall, Mowgli, Baloo), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trained	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
4	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bruised	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bruised	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 bruised	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 bruised	aux:pass
9	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 bruised	advmod
10	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 feet	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	19 feet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fall	det
14	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feet	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 feet	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 feet	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 feet	amod
18	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 feet	nummod
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bruised	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
22	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bruised	advcl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 taught	mark
25	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 taught	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 taught	aux
27	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 fell	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 taught	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 fall	mark
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 taught	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 landed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 landed	cc
33	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fell	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 feet	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 feet	nmod:poss
36	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 landed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bruised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	train	participle						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bruise	would · perfect · passive		a trained boy			badly property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	past	the fall				for a good fifteen feet	tree rules
4	fall	past	Mowgli					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Baloo	Mowgli			tree rules
6	fall	to-infinitive	Baloo not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	land	past	Mowgli not said here			Mowgli's feet		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination

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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