The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 113

He spread out his hood more than ever, and Rikki-tikki saw the spectacle-mark on the back of it that looks exactly like the eye part of a hook-and-eye fastening.

Who acts: cobra, Rikki tikki, spectacle mark · What happens: spread out, see, look · To what, where: hood, spectacle mark, back

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 (cobra, Rikki tikki, spectacle mark), 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	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 spread	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hood	nmod:poss
5	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 spread	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 more	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
11	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tikki	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Rikki	punct
13	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spread	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mark	det
16	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mark	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 spectacle	punct
18	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 back	det
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mark	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 back	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 looks	nsubj
25	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mark	acl:relcl
26	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	25 looks	advmod
27	like	like	SCONJ	_	30 part	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 part	det
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	compound
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looks	advcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 hook	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hook	det
33	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 fastening	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fastening	cc
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 and	punct
37	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fastening	compound
38	fastening	fastening	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hook	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread out	past	cobra	cobra's hood			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hood=Theme
2	see	past	Rikki tikki	the spectacle mark	the back of mark		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus
3	look	present	the spectacle mark			exactly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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