The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 65

The lines of the monkeys swayed forward helplessly, and Baloo and Bagheera took one stiff step forward with them.

Who acts: lines, Baloo · What happens: sway, take · To what, where: one stiff step

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 (lines, Baloo), 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 lines	det
2	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swayed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 monkeys	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monkeys	det
5	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lines	nmod
6	swayed	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	forward	forward	ADV	_	6 swayed	advmod
8	helplessly	helplessly	ADV	_	6 swayed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
11	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 took	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Bagheera	cc
13	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Baloo	conj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swayed	conj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 step	nummod
16	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 step	amod
17	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
18	forward	forward	ADV	_	14 took	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sway	past	the lines of the monkeys					forward, helplessly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	Baloo and Bagheera	one stiff step				with lines = line; forward property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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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