The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 163

Then she would take the straightest of straight lines in his direction, striking out with her fore flippers and knocking the youngsters head over heels right and left.

Who acts: sheep · What happens: take, strike out, knock, leave · To what, where: straightest, youngsters head, heels

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 (sheep), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 take	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 straightest	det
6	straightest	straight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 lines	case
8	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lines	amod
9	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 straightest	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 direction	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 direction	nmod:poss
12	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lines	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 striking	punct
14	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 take	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 striking	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 flippers	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 flippers	nmod:poss
18	fore	fore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flippers	amod
19	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 striking	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knocking	cc
21	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 striking	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 head	det
23	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 head	compound
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knocking	obj
25	over	over	ADP	_	26 heels	case
26	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 head	nmod
27	right	right	ADV	_	29 left	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 left	cc
29	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 knocking	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	sheep	the straightest		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straight=Theme
2	strike out	gerund	sheep not said here				with sheep's fore flippers	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with flipper=Theme
3	knock	gerund	sheep not said here	the youngsters head	heels			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme over heel=Destination
4	leave	past	sheep not said here				right property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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