The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 153
Darzee’s wife fluttered on, piping sorrowfully, and never leaving the ground, and Nagaina quickened her pace.
Who acts: wife, Nagaina · What happens: flutter, pipe, not leave, quicken · To what, where: ground, pace
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 (wife, 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 | Darzee | Darzee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Darzee | case |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fluttered | nsubj |
| 4 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 fluttered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 piping | punct |
| 7 | piping | pipe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fluttered | advcl |
| 8 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 7 piping | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaving | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leaving | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 leaving | advmod |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 piping | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaving | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quickened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 quickened | cc |
| 17 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 quickened | nsubj |
| 18 | quickened | quicken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fluttered | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pace | nmod:poss |
| 20 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quickened | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | past | Darzee's wife | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pipe | gerund | Darzee's wife not said here | sorrowfully property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not leave | gerund | Darzee's wife not said here | the ground | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||||
| 4 | quicken | past | Nagaina | wife's pace | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient |
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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