The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 120

Mowgli went on with his work, but it was nearly twilight before he and the wolves had drawn the great gay skin clear of the body.

Who acts: Mowgli, tale · What happens: go on, be, draw, work · To what, where: twilight, 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 (Mowgli, tale), 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	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 work	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 work	nmod:poss
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 twilight	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 twilight	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 twilight	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 twilight	cop
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 twilight	advmod
12	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 drawn	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drawn	nsubj:pass
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wolves	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wolves	det
17	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 he	conj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 drawn	aux
19	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 skin	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skin	amod
22	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skin	amod
23	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drawn	obj
24	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skin	amod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 body	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 body	det
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clear	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	Mowgli		with Mowgli's work	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	tale	twilight	nearly property	tree rules
3	draw	past · perfect · passive		Mowgli		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary skin=Result
4	work		Mowgli			nom work «act intransitive»: 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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