The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 48

The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged shaky fringes of things.

Who acts: moon, lines · What happens: sink, tremble, huddle, look · To what, where: hills, trembling monkeys, walls

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 (moon, lines), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sinking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sinking	aux
4	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sinking	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lines	det
10	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looked	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 monkeys	case
12	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 monkeys	amod
13	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lines	nmod
14	huddled	huddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 monkeys	acl
15	together	together	ADV	_	14 huddled	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 walls	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 walls	det
18	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 huddled	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 battlements	cc
20	battlements	battlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 walls	conj
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sinking	conj
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 fringes	case
23	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fringes	amod
24	shaky	shaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fringes	amod
25	fringes	fringe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looked	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 things	case
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fringes	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sink	past · progressive	the moon		the hills		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tremble	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	huddle	participle		trembling monkeys not said here	the walls and battlements	together property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
4	look	past	the lines of trembling monkeys			like ragged shaky fringes of things	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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