The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 107

Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.

Who acts: you, Nag · What happens: inch, rise up, spread, be · To what, where: head, hood, tongue

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Nag), 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	2 inch	advmod
2	inch	inch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 inch	case
4	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inch	obl
5	out	out	ADP	_	9 rose	mark
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rose	obl
9	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 inch	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 rose	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rose	obl:unmarked
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spread	cc
14	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rose	conj
15	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Nag	case
17	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 hood	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cobra	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cobra	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cobra	amod
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cobra	amod
22	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hood	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 long	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 long	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 long	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 long	cop
27	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 feet	nummod
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 long	obl:unmarked
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 inch	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 tongue	case
31	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 long	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 tail	case
33	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 long	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 inch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inch	imperative	you not said here			then	by inch	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by inch=Trajectory
2	rise up	past	you not said here	the head			of the grass	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of grass=Initial_Location
3	spread	past	you not said here	hood of Nag and the big black cobra				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hood=Theme
4	is	past	Nag		tongue		to tail; five feet obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules

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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