The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 65

Down hoods all!” said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).

Who acts: ruin, old summerhouse · What happens: hood, say, become, dwell, be · 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 (ruin, old summerhouse), 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	Down	down	ADV	_	2 hoods	advmod
2	hoods	hood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 hoods	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 hoods	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 hoods	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 voices	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 voices	det
9	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 voices	nummod
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 voices	amod
11	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	ccomp
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 becomes	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 ruin	det
14	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 becomes	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 India	case
16	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ruin	nmod
17	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 voices	conj
18	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 becomes	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 later	cc
20	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 sooner	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 place	det
22	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 place	amod
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sooner	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 snakes	case
25	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 place	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 alive	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 alive	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 summerhouse	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 summerhouse	amod
30	summerhouse	summerhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 alive	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 alive	cop
32	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 cobras	case
34	cobras	cobra	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 alive	obl
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 alive	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hood	present		all, down property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	become in a quote	present	every ruin in India	soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	dwell in a quote	gerund			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	past	the old summerhouse	with cobras; alive property	tree rules

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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