The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 75

He worked his way desperately, inch by inch, straight for the reservoirs, halting in silence.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: work, halt · To what, where: way, silence

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worked	nsubj
2	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worked	obj
5	desperately	desperately	ADV	_	2 worked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 inch	punct
7	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worked	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 inch	case
9	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inch	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reservoirs	punct
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 reservoirs	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 reservoirs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reservoirs	det
14	reservoirs	reservoir	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 worked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 halting	punct
16	halting	halt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 worked	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 silence	case
18	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 halting	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	Mowgli	Mowgli's way				for the reservoirs; inch by inch obl; desperately property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent way=Theme for reservoir=Eventuality
2	halt	gerund	Mowgli not said here			silence			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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