The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 114

He would put his head on one side, as though he were afraid to look his enemy in the face; then he would shoot it out like lightning, and when the big teeth were firmly fixed on the other seal’s neck, the other seal might get away if he could, but Sea Catch would not help him.

Who acts: Catch, other seal, Sea Catch · What happens: put, be, look, shoot out, fix, get away · To what, where: head, one side, enemy, face, big teeth, neck

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catch, other seal, Sea Catch), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux
3	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 side	nummod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 afraid	mark
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 afraid	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 afraid	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	cop
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 put	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 afraid	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 enemy	nmod:poss
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 face	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 face	det
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 shoot	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 shoot	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shoot	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 shoot	aux
26	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 put	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shoot	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	26 shoot	compound:prt
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 lightning	case
30	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shoot	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 get	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 get	cc
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 fixed	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 teeth	det
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 teeth	amod
36	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 fixed	nsubj:pass
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 fixed	aux:pass
38	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	39 fixed	advmod
39	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 get	advcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	45 neck	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 seal	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 seal	amod
43	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 neck	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 seal	case
45	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fixed	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 get	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 seal	det
48	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 seal	amod
49	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 get	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 get	aux
51	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 shoot	conj
52	away	away	ADV	_	51 get	advmod
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 could	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 could	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 get	advcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 help	punct
57	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 help	cc
58	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Catch	compound
59	Catch	Catch	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 help	nsubj
60	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 help	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 help	advmod
62	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 shoot	conj
63	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 help	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	would	Catch	Catch's head		one side			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on side=Destination
2	is	past	Catch					afraid property	tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive	Catch not said here	Catch's enemy		the face			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme enemy=Attribute
4	shoot out	would	Catch	enemy			then	like lightning	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	fix	past · passive		the big teeth		the other seal's neck		firmly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
6	get away	might	the other seal					away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not help	would	Sea Catch		Seal				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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