The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 108

He lay as still as still, expecting every minute to see Mowgli turn into a tiger too.

Who acts: Buldeo, Mowgli · What happens: lie, expect, see, turn · To what, where: Mowgli

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buldeo, Mowgli), 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:pg236:1088): 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	xcomp
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 still	mark
6	still	still	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 still	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 expecting	punct
8	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 minute	det
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expecting	obl:unmarked
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 expecting	xcomp
13	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
14	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	xcomp
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 tiger	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tiger	det
17	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turn	obl
18	too	too	ADV	_	14 turn	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Buldeo			still property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	expect	gerund	Buldeo not said here		minute		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Buldeo not said here	Mowgli			tree rules
4	turn	infinitive	Mowgli not said here			into a tiger result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tiger=Result

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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