The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 8

Then all would begin again till they grew tired of the city and went back to the tree-tops, hoping the Jungle-People would notice them.

Who acts: all, monkeys, Jungle People · What happens: begin, grow, go back, hope, notice · To what, where: monkeys · 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 (all, monkeys, Jungle People), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 begin	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 begin	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 begin	aux
4	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 begin	advmod
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 grew	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begin	advcl
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tired	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 tops	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tops	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tops	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 tree	punct
20	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hoping	punct
22	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 People	det
24	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 People	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Jungle	punct
26	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 notice	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 notice	aux
28	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hoping	ccomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 notice	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	would	all		then; again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	grow	past	monkeys = monkey			tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go back	past	monkeys = monkey not said here			to the tree tops result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result
4	hope	gerund	monkeys = monkey not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	notice	would	the Jungle People	monkeys = monkey			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=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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