The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 88

“Hum!” said Mowgli, half to himself as he ripped back the skin of a forepaw.

Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: say, rip back · To what, where: skin · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hum	punct
2	Hum	hum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hum	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hum	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 half	punct
8	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 said	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 half	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 ripped	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ripped	nsubj
13	ripped	rip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 ripped	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 skin	det
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ripped	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 forepaw	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 forepaw	det
19	forepaw	forepaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skin	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mowgli					half property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	rip back	past	Mowgli	the skin of a forepaw					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

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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