The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 77

But it was hard work, and Mowgli slashed and tore and grunted for an hour, while the wolves lolled out their tongues, or came forward and tugged as he ordered them.

Who acts: skin, Mowgli, wolves · What happens: be, slash, grunt, loll out, come forward, tug · To what, where: hard work, tore, tongues, wolves

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 (skin, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 work	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 work	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 work	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 work	amod
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slashed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slashed	cc
8	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 slashed	nsubj
9	slashed	slash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 work	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tore	cc
11	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slashed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grunted	cc
13	grunted	grunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 slashed	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 hour	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grunted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lolled	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 lolled	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wolves	det
20	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lolled	nsubj
21	lolled	loll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 grunted	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 lolled	compound:prt
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tongues	nmod:poss
24	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lolled	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slashed	conj
28	forward	forward	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tugged	cc
30	tugged	tug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 came	conj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 ordered	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ordered	nsubj
33	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tugged	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ordered	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	skin	hard work				tree rules
2	slash	past	Mowgli	tore				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tore=Patient
3	grunt	participle	Mowgli not said here			hour		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	loll out	participle	the wolves	wolves's tongues				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tongue=Theme
5	come forward	past	Mowgli not said here				forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tug	participle	Mowgli not said here					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
7	order	past	Mowgli		wolves = wolf			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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