The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 132
But Darzee had built it out of reach of snakes, and it only swayed to and fro.
Who acts: nest · What happens: build, sway, fro · To what, where: Darzee, reach
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 (nest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 built | cc |
| 2 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 reach | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 reach | case |
| 8 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 snakes | case |
| 10 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reach | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swayed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swayed | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swayed | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 swayed | advmod |
| 15 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 swayed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fro | cc |
| 18 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 swayed | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · perfect · passive | Darzee | reach of snakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product | ||||
| 2 | sway | past | nest | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fro | infinitive | nest not said here | 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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