The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 3

There was a difficulty at bedtime, because Mowgli would not sleep under anything that looked so like a panther trap as that hut, and when they shut the door he went through the window.

Who acts: difficulty, Mowgli, names · What happens: be, not sleep, look, shut, go · To what, where: anything, door, window

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difficulty, Mowgli, names), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 difficulty	det
4	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 bedtime	case
6	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 difficulty	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sleep	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 sleep	mark
9	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sleep	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sleep	advmod
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	14 anything	case
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 sleep	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 anything	acl:relcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	16 looked	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 trap	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 trap	det
20	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trap	compound
21	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 hut	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 hut	det
24	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 shut	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shut	nsubj
29	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 went	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shut	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 window	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 window	det
36	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a difficulty at bedtime		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not sleep	would	Mowgli		anything		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past				like a panther trap; as that hut	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	shut	present	names = name	the door			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	go	past	Mowgli		the window		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through window=Initial_Location

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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