The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 109

Mowgli laid his head down on Bagheera’s back and slept so deeply that he never waked when he was put down in the home-cave.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: lay down, sleep, not wake, put down · To what, where: head, back, Mowgli, home cave

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. 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	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	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 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 laid	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 back	case
7	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 back	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Bagheera	case
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 deeply	advmod
13	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	11 slept	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 waked	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 waked	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 waked	advmod
17	waked	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 deeply	advcl
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 put	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux:pass
21	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 waked	advcl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 put	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 cave	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cave	det
25	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cave	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 home	punct
27	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	Mowgli	Mowgli's head	Bagheera's back	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on back=Destination
2	sleep	past	Mowgli not said here			deeply property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not wake	past	Mowgli				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	put down	past · passive		Mowgli	the home cave		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cave=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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