The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 11
Rikki jumped sideways and tried to run in, but the wicked little dusty gray head lashed within a fraction of his shoulder, and he had to jump over the body, and the head followed his heels close.
Who acts: Rikki, wicked little dusty gray head, head · What happens: jump, try, run, lash, have, follow · To what, where: body, heels
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rikki, wicked little dusty gray head, head), 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 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tried | cc |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 run | mark |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 run | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lashed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 lashed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 head | det |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 head | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 head | amod |
| 14 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 head | amod |
| 15 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | compound |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lashed | nsubj |
| 17 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 20 fraction | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fraction | det |
| 20 | fraction | fraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lashed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 shoulder | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fraction | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 jump | mark |
| 29 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | xcomp |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 body | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 body | det |
| 32 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 jump | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 followed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 followed | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 head | det |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 followed | nsubj |
| 37 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 heels | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 followed | obj |
| 40 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 followed | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Rikki | sideways property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Rikki not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rikki not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lash | past | the wicked little dusty gray head | within a fraction of Rikki's shoulder | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Rikki | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | jump | to-infinitive | Rikki not said here | the body | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over body=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | follow | past | the head | Rikki's heels | close property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=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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