The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 15

His father ran out with a stick, but by the time he came up, Karait had lunged out once too far, and Rikki-tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back, dropped his head far between his forelegs, bitten as high up the back as he could get hold, and rolled away.

Who acts: father, Karait, tikki · What happens: run out, come up, lunge out, spring, jump, drop · To what, where: time, Rikki tikki, back, head, forelegs, hold

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 (father, Karait, tikki), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 stick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lunged	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 lunged	cc
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lunged	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl
15	up	up	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
17	Karait	Karait	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 lunged	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lunged	aux
19	lunged	lunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ran	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 lunged	compound:prt
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 lunged	advmod
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 lunged	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sprung	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sprung	cc
26	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 tikki	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Rikki	punct
28	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sprung	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sprung	aux
30	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 jumped	punct
32	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	37 back	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 snake	det
35	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 back	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 snake	case
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 jumped	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 dropped	punct
39	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 head	nmod:poss
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dropped	obj
42	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 dropped	advmod
43	between	between	ADP	_	45 forelegs	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 forelegs	nmod:poss
45	forelegs	foreleg	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 dropped	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bitten	punct
47	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 forelegs	acl
48	as	as	ADP	_	49 high	case
49	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 bitten	obl
50	up	up	ADP	_	52 back	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 back	det
52	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bitten	obl
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 get	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 get	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 get	aux
56	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 dropped	advcl
57	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 get	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 rolled	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 rolled	cc
60	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
61	away	away	ADV	_	60 rolled	advmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	past	Teddy's father				with a stick	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with stick=Material
2	come up	past	father	the time not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
3	lunge out	past · perfect	Karait			time	far, once property	tree rules
4	spring	past · perfect · passive		Rikki tikki				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	jump	past	Teddy's father not said here		the snake's back			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
6	drop	past	Teddy's father not said here	tikki's head	tikki's forelegs		far property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme between foreleg=Destination
7	bite	participle		tikki's forelegs not said here			as high; up the back	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	get	could	tikki	hold				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
9	roll away	past	Teddy's father not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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