The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 183

But as he looked at the thatch, he saw that he could tear it out any time if he wanted to get away, and that the window had no fastenings.

Who acts: Mowgli, window · What happens: look, see, tear out, want, get away, have · To what, where: thatch, fastenings · Speech: someone speaks here

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, window), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 looked	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 thatch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thatch	det
7	thatch	thatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 tear	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tear	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tear	aux
14	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saw	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tear	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 tear	compound:prt
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tear	obl:unmarked
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 wanted	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tear	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 window	det
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 fastenings	det
32	fastenings	fastening	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Mowgli			at the thatch	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thatch=Theme
2	see	past	Mowgli				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	tear out	could	Mowgli	thatch	time		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
4	want a condition, not said to happen	past	Mowgli				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	get away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here			away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	the window	no fastenings			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fastening=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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