The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 108

When he had lifted one-third of himself clear of the ground, he stayed balancing to and fro exactly as a dandelion tuft balances in the wind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki with the wicked snake’s eyes that never change their expression, whatever the snake may be thinking of.

Who acts: Nag, eyes, snake · What happens: lift, stay, balance, look, not change, think · To what, where: one third, expression, whatever

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 (Nag, eyes, snake), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 lifted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	aux
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 stayed	advcl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 third	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 third	punct
7	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 third	nmod
10	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 third	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clear	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stayed	nsubj
16	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	balancing	balance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 stayed	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 balancing	fixed
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 balances	cc
20	fro	fro	ADV	_	21 exactly	advmod
21	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	26 balances	advmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	26 balances	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tuft	det
24	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tuft	compound
25	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 balances	compound
26	balances	balance	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stayed	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 wind	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wind	det
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 balances	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 looked	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 looked	nsubj
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stayed	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	37 tikki	case
35	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 tikki	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Rikki	punct
37	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	43 eyes	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 snake	det
40	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 snake	amod
41	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 eyes	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 snake	case
43	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 tikki	nmod
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 change	nsubj
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 change	advmod
46	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 eyes	acl:relcl
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 expression	nmod:poss
48	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 change	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 thinking	punct
50	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 thinking	obj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 snake	det
52	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 thinking	nsubj
53	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 thinking	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 thinking	aux
55	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 expression	conj
56	of	of	ADP	_	55 thinking	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift	past · perfect	Nag	one third of Nag		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme
2	stay	past	Nag			tree rules
3	balance	gerund	Nag not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	past	Nag		at Rikki tikki with the wicked snake's eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tikki=Theme
5	not change	present	the wicked snake's eyes	eyes's expression		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient
6	think speech: other	may · progressive	the snake	whatever		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=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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