The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 67

Mowgli laid his hands on Baloo and Bagheera to get them away, and the two great beasts started as though they had been waked from a dream.

Who acts: Mowgli, two great beasts · What happens: lay, get away, start, wake · To what, where: hands, Baloo, beasts, dream

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, two great beasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg236:801): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 laid	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Baloo	case
6	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Bagheera	cc
8	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Baloo	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 laid	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 started	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 started	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beasts	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 beasts	nummod
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beasts	amod
18	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 started	nsubj
19	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 waked	mark
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 waked	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 waked	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 waked	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 waked	aux:pass
25	waked	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 started	advcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 dream	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dream	det
28	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waked	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Mowgli	Mowgli's hands	Baloo and Bagheera		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on baloo=Destination
2	get away	to-infinitive	Mowgli not said here	hands = hand		away property	tree rules
3	start	past	the two great beasts				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	wake	past · perfect · passive		beasts = beast	a dream		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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