The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 117

Nag was thinking to himself, and watching the least little movement in the grass behind Rikki-tikki.

Who acts: Nag · What happens: think, watch · To what, where: Nag, least little movement, grass

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), 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	Nag	nag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 thinking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 watching	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 watching	cc
8	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thinking	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 movement	det
10	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 movement	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 movement	amod
12	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watching	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 grass	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 movement	nmod
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 tikki	case
17	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 tikki	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Rikki	punct
19	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grass	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	Nag		Nag				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	gerund	Nag not said here	the least little movement		the grass behind Rikki tikki			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=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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