The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 86

The Panther lay gasping for breath, his head just out of the water, while the monkeys stood three deep on the red steps, dancing up and down with rage, ready to spring upon him from all sides if he came out to help Baloo.

Who acts: Panther, monkeys · What happens: lie, gasp, stand, dance, spring, come out · To what, where: water, sides, Baloo

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 (Panther, monkeys), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Panther	det
2	Panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gasping	gasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 lay	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 breath	case
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gasping	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 head	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breath	conj
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 water	advmod
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 water	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gasping	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 stood	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 monkeys	det
18	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 deep	nummod
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stood	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 steps	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 steps	det
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 steps	amod
25	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dancing	punct
27	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 stood	advcl
28	up	up	ADV	_	27 dancing	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 down	cc
30	down	down	ADV	_	28 up	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 rage	case
32	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dancing	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ready	punct
34	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rage	amod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 spring	mark
36	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 ready	xcomp
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 spring	obl
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 sides	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 sides	det
41	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 spring	obl
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 came	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 came	nsubj
44	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 spring	advcl
45	out	out	ADV	_	44 came	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 help	mark
47	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 came	advcl
48	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 help	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the Panther				tree rules
2	gasp	gerund	the Panther not said here		the water	for breath and Panther's head	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient
3	stand	past	the monkeys			on the red steps; deep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location
4	dance	gerund	the monkeys not said here			with rage	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spring	to-infinitive	the monkeys not said here		all sides	upon Panther	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory
6	come out a condition, not said to happen	past	Panther			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	help	to-infinitive	Panther not said here	Baloo			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baloo=Beneficiary

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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