The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 36

When the potter’s donkey slipped in the clay pit, Mowgli hauled it out by the tail, and helped to stack the pots for their journey to the market at Khanhiwara.

Who acts: donkey, Mowgli, pots · What happens: slip, haul out, help, stack, journey · To what, where: donkey, pots

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 (donkey, Mowgli, pots), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 donkey	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 potter	det
3	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 donkey	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 potter	case
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slipped	nsubj
6	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 pit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pit	det
9	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pit	compound
10	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slipped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hauled	punct
12	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hauled	nsubj
13	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slipped	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hauled	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 hauled	compound:prt
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 tail	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tail	det
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hauled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 helped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 helped	cc
21	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slipped	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 stack	mark
23	stack	stack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 helped	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pots	det
25	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stack	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 journey	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 journey	nmod:poss
28	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stack	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 market	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 market	det
31	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stack	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 Khanhiwara	case
33	Khanhiwara	Khanhiwara	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 market	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slip	past	the potter's donkey		in the clay pit	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pit=Attribute
2	haul out	past	Mowgli	donkey	by the tail	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	help	past	the potter's donkey not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	stack	to-infinitive	the potter's donkey not said here	the pots	for pots's journey; to the market at Khanhiwara	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
5	journey		pots = pot			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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