The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 18

The screen-work broke and fell away in a cloud of dust and rubbish, and Mowgli leaped through the opening and flung himself between Baloo and Bagheera--an arm around each big neck.

Who acts: screen work, Mowgli · What happens: break, fall away, leap, fling, cloud · To what, where: opening, Mowgli, dust

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 (screen work, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 work	det
2	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 screen	punct
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cloud	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cloud	det
11	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 dust	case
13	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cloud	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rubbish	cc
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dust	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 leaped	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 leaped	cc
18	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 leaped	nsubj
19	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	parataxis
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 opening	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 opening	det
22	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leaped	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flung	cc
24	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 leaped	conj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 flung	obj
26	between	between	ADP	_	27 Baloo	case
27	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 flung	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Bagheera	cc
29	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Baloo	conj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 arm	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 arm	det
32	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Baloo	appos
33	around	around	ADP	_	36 neck	case
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 neck	det
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 neck	amod
36	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 arm	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	the screen work				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	fall away	past	the screen work not said here			in a cloud of dust and rubbish; away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cloud=Attribute
3	leap	past	Mowgli		the opening		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through opening=Trajectory
4	fling	past	Mowgli not said here	Mowgli		between Baloo and Bagheera	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme between baloo=Destination
5	cloud			dust and rubbish			nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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