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The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 45

Mowgli, who naturally knew something about what they were talking of, had to cover his face not to show that he was laughing, while Buldeo, the Tower musket across his knees, climbed on from one wonderful story to another, and Mowgli’s shoulders shook.

Who acts: Mowgli, deer, Buldeo, shoulders · What happens: know, talk, have, cover, not show, laugh · To what, where: something, face, one wonderful story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mowgli, deer, Buldeo, shoulders), 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

nsubjpunctnsubjadvmodacl:relclobjcasenmodnsubjauxacl:relcloblpunctmarkxcompnmod:possobjadvmodmarkadvclmarknsubjauxccomppunctmarknsubjpunctdetcompoundapposcasenmod:possnmodpunctconjadvmodcasenummodamodoblcasenmodpunctccnmod:posscasensubjconjpunctrootMowgliPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONnaturallyADVknewVERBsomethingPRONaboutADPwhatPRONtheyPRONwereAUXtalkingVERBofADP,PUNCThadVERBtoPARTcoverVERBhisPRONfaceNOUNnotPARTtoPARTshowVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXlaughingVERB,PUNCTwhileSCONJBuldeoPROPN,PUNCTtheDETTowerPROPNmusketNOUNacrossADPhisPRONkneesNOUN,PUNCTclimbedVERBonADVfromADPoneNUMwonderfulADJstoryNOUNtoADPanotherDET,PUNCTandCCONJMowgliPROPN’sPARTshouldersNOUNshookVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MowgliMowgliPROPNNumber=Sing14 hadnsubj
2,,PUNCT_5 knewpunct
3whowhoPRONPronType=Rel5 knewnsubj
4naturallynaturallyADV_5 knewadvmod
5knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin1 Mowgliacl:relcl
6somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind5 knewobj
7aboutaboutADP_8 whatcase
8whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel6 somethingnmod
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 talkingnsubj
10werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 talkingaux
11talkingtalkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 whatacl:relcl
12ofofADP_11 talkingobl
13,,PUNCT_1 Mowglipunct
14hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15totoPART_16 covermark
16covercoverVERBVerbForm=Inf14 hadxcomp
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 facenmod:poss
18facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing16 coverobj
19notnotPARTPolarity=Neg21 showadvmod
20totoPART_21 showmark
21showshowVERBVerbForm=Inf16 coveradvcl
22thatthatSCONJ_25 laughingmark
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 laughingnsubj
24wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 laughingaux
25laughinglaughVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 showccomp
26,,PUNCT_37 climbedpunct
27whilewhileSCONJ_37 climbedmark
28BuldeoBuldeoPROPNNumber=Sing37 climbednsubj
29,,PUNCT_32 musketpunct
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 musketdet
31TowerTowerPROPNNumber=Sing32 musketcompound
32musketmusketNOUNNumber=Sing28 Buldeoappos
33acrossacrossADP_35 kneescase
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 kneesnmod:poss
35kneeskneeNOUNNumber=Plur32 musketnmod
36,,PUNCT_28 Buldeopunct
37climbedclimbVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 showconj
38ononADV_37 climbedadvmod
39fromfromADP_42 storycase
40oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card42 storynummod
41wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Pos42 storyamod
42storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing37 climbedobl
43totoADP_44 anothercase
44anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind42 storynmod
45,,PUNCT_50 shookpunct
46andandCCONJ_50 shookcc
47MowgliMowgliPROPNNumber=Sing49 shouldersnmod:poss
48’s'sPART_47 Mowglicase
49shouldersshoulderNOUNNumber=Plur50 shooknsubj
50shookshakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 hadconj
51..PUNCT_14 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowpastMowglisomethingnaturally propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2talkpast · progressivedeervn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3havepastMowglitree rules
4coverto-infinitiveMowgli not said hereMowgli's facevn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination
5not showto-infinitiveMowgli not said herevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6laughpast · progressiveMowglivn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7climbpastBuldeoone wonderful story to anothervn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from story=Trajectory
8shakepastMowgli's shouldersvn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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