The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 159

Of course, in playing together, the cubs had often nipped Mowgli harder than they intended, and there were white scars all over his arms and legs.

Who acts: jungle, white scars · What happens: play, nip, intend, be · To what, where: cubs

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 (jungle, white scars), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 playing	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	5 playing	mark
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 nipped	advcl
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 playing	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cubs	det
9	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 nipped	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nipped	aux
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 nipped	advmod
12	nipped	nip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 harder	nsubj
14	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 nipped	xcomp
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 intended	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 intended	nsubj
17	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 harder	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 were	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 were	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 were	expl
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nipped	parataxis
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 scars	amod
23	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 were	nsubj
24	all	all	ADV	_	27 arms	advmod
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 arms	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arms	nmod:poss
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 scars	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 legs	cc
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 arms	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 nipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	gerund				together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	nip	past · perfect · passive		the cubs		hard, often property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	intend	past	jungle				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	be	past	white scars over Mowgli's arms and legs		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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