The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 171

When the moon rose over the plain, making it look all milky, the horrified villagers saw Mowgli, with two wolves at his heels and a bundle on his head, trotting across at the steady wolf’s trot that eats up the long miles like fire.

Who acts: moon, horrified villagers, trot, steady wolf · What happens: rise, make, look, see, trot, eat up · To what, where: plain, moon, Mowgli, trot, long miles

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 (moon, horrified villagers, trot, steady wolf), 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	4 rose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	advcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 plain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plain	det
7	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 making	punct
9	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rose	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 making	obj
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 making	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 milky	det
13	milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 villagers	det
16	horrified	horrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 villagers	amod
17	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wolves	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 wolves	case
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 wolves	nummod
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 heels	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heels	nmod:poss
26	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wolves	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bundle	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bundle	det
29	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heels	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bundle	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 trotting	punct
34	trotting	trot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 saw	conj
35	across	across	ADV	_	34 trotting	advmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	41 trot	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wolf	det
38	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wolf	amod
39	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 trot	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 wolf	case
41	trot	trot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 trotting	obl
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 eats	nsubj
43	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 trot	acl:relcl
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 eats	compound:prt
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 miles	det
46	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 miles	amod
47	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 eats	obj
48	like	like	ADP	_	49 fire	case
49	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 miles	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the moon		the plain		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over plain=Location
2	make	gerund	the moon not said here	moon			tree rules
3	look	infinitive	moon not said here			milky property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	the horrified villagers	Mowgli		with two wolves at Mowgli's heels and a bundle on Mowgli's head	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mowgli=Stimulus
5	trot	gerund	the horrified villagers not said here		the steady wolf's trot	across property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at trot=Trajectory
6	eat up	present	the steady wolf's trot	the long miles		like fire	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient
7	trot		the steady wolf				nom trot «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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