The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 51

Once started, there was no chance of stopping, and before they were fairly in the bed of the ravine Rama winded Shere Khan and bellowed.

Who acts: chance, steamers, bed · What happens: start, be, stop, wind, bellow · To what, where: bed, Shere

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 (chance, steamers, bed), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 started	advmod
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 chance	det
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 stopping	mark
9	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 chance	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 winded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 winded	cc
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 bed	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bed	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bed	cop
15	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	18 bed	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 bed	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bed	det
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 winded	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 ravine	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ravine	det
21	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bed	nmod
22	Rama	Rama	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 ravine	appos
23	winded	wind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	parataxis
24	Shere	Shere	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 winded	obj
25	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Shere	flat
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bellowed	cc
27	bellowed	bellow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 winded	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past				once property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	be	past	no chance		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	gerund	no chance not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	past	steamers = steamer		the bed	of the ravine; fairly property	tree rules
5	wind	past	the bed	Shere			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme shere=Result
6	bellow	past	the bed not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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