The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 174
The moon was just going down when Mowgli and the two wolves came to the hill of the Council Rock, and they stopped at Mother Wolf’s cave.
Who acts: moon, Mowgli, wolves · What happens: go down, come, stop · To what, where: hill, cave
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, Mowgli, wolves), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 8 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wolves | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wolves | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 wolves | nummod |
| 12 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Mowgli | conj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 hill | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hill | det |
| 16 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Rock | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Rock | det |
| 19 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Rock | compound |
| 20 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hill | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stopped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stopped | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stopped | nsubj |
| 24 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 cave | case |
| 26 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Wolf | compound |
| 27 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 cave | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Wolf | case |
| 29 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stopped | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past · progressive | the moon | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Mowgli and the two wolves | the hill of the Council Rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | wolves = wolf | Mother Wolf's cave | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cave=Location |
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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