The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 157

He bit off the tops of the eggs as fast as he could, taking care to crush the young cobras, and turned over the litter from time to time to see whether he had missed any.

Who acts: tikki · What happens: bite off, take, crush, turn over, see, miss · To what, where: tops, care, young cobras, litter, any · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 tops	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tops	det
5	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bit	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 eggs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eggs	det
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tops	nmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 bit	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 could	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fast	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
15	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bit	advcl
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 crush	mark
18	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 taking	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cobras	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cobras	amod
21	cobras	cobra	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 crush	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 turned	cc
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bit	conj
25	over	over	ADP	_	24 turned	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 litter	det
27	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 time	case
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 time	case
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 turned	advcl
34	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	37 missed	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 missed	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 missed	aux
37	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 see	ccomp
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 missed	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bite off	past	tikki	the tops of the eggs		fast property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Patient
2	take	gerund	tikki not said here	care			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute
3	crush	to-infinitive	tikki not said here	the young cobras			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cobra=Patient
4	turn over	past	tikki not said here	the litter	time		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent litter=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	tikki not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	miss	past · perfect	tikki	any			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus

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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