The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 144
And she moved toward Darzee’s wife, slipping along over the dust.
Who acts: Nagaina · What happens: move, slip · To what, where: dust
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 (Nagaina), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 moved | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 5 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Darzee | case |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slipping | punct |
| 9 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 moved | advcl |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 slipping | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 dust | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dust | det |
| 13 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slipping | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Nagaina | toward Darzee's wife | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward wife=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | slip | gerund | Nagaina not said here | the dust | along property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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