The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 7

So Mowgli stretched himself in some long, clean grass at the edge of the field, but before he had closed his eyes a soft gray nose poked him under the chin.

Who acts: Mowgli, eyes · What happens: stretch, close, poke · To what, where: Mowgli, chin

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, eyes), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 stretched	advmod
2	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	nsubj
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 stretched	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	10 grass	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 grass	nsubj
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grass	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grass	amod
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 edge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 edge	det
13	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 field	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 field	det
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 edge	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 closed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 closed	cc
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 closed	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 closed	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 closed	aux
22	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 stretched	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod:poss
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 poked	nsubj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 nose	det
26	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nose	amod
27	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nose	compound
28	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poked	nsubj
29	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 closed	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 poked	obj
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 chin	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chin	det
33	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poked	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	Mowgli	Mowgli		at the edge of the field; in long clean grass	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in grass=Topic
2	close	past · perfect	Mowgli				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	poke	past	Mowgli's eyes	Mowgli	the chin		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

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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