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The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 51

The house was as still as still, but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world--a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane--the dry scratch of a snake’s scales on brick-work.

Who acts: house, tikki, wasp · What happens: be, think, catch, walk, scratch · To what, where: faintest scratch scratch, world, window pane, scales · 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 (house, tikki, wasp), 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

detnsubjcopadvmodadvmodcaseoblpunctccnsubjnsubjauxadvmodccompdetamodcompoundpunctobjcasedetnmodpunctdetoblcaseoblcasenmodcasedetnmodaclcasedetcompoundpunctoblpunctdetamodapposcasedetnmod:posscasenmodcasecompoundpunctnmodpunctrootTheDEThouseNOUNwasAUXasADVstillADVasADPstillADV,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONthoughtVERBhePRONcouldAUXjustADVcatchVERBtheDETfaintestADJscratchNOUN-PUNCTscratchNOUNinADPtheDETworldNOUN--PUNCTaDETnoiseNOUNasADPfaintADJasADPthatPRONofADPaDETwaspNOUNwalkingVERBonADPaDETwindowNOUN-PUNCTpaneNOUN--PUNCTtheDETdryADJscratchNOUNofADPaDETsnakeNOUN’sPARTscalesNOUNonADPbrickNOUN-PUNCTworkNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 housedet
2househouseNOUNNumber=Sing5 stillnsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 stillcop
4asasADV_5 stilladvmod
5stillstillADV_11 thoughtadvmod
6asasADP_7 stillcase
7stillstillADV_5 stillobl
8,,PUNCT_11 thoughtpunct
9butbutCCONJ_11 thoughtcc
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 thoughtnsubj
11thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 catchnsubj
13couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin15 catchaux
14justjustADV_15 catchadvmod
15catchcatchVERBVerbForm=Inf11 thoughtccomp
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 scratchdet
17faintestfaintADJDegree=Sup20 scratchamod
18scratchscratchNOUNNumber=Sing20 scratchcompound
19--PUNCT_18 scratchpunct
20scratchscratchNOUNNumber=Sing15 catchobj
21ininADP_23 worldcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 worlddet
23worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing20 scratchnmod
24----PUNCT_26 noisepunct
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 noisedet
26noisenoiseNOUNNumber=Sing15 catchobl
27asasADP_28 faintcase
28faintfaintADJDegree=Pos30 thatobl
29asasADP_30 thatcase
30thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem26 noisenmod
31ofofADP_33 waspcase
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 waspdet
33waspwaspNOUNNumber=Sing30 thatnmod
34walkingwalkVERBVerbForm=Ger33 waspacl
35ononADP_39 panecase
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 panedet
37windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing39 panecompound
38--PUNCT_37 windowpunct
39panepaneNOUNNumber=Sing34 walkingobl
40----PUNCT_43 scratchpunct
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 scratchdet
42drydryADJDegree=Pos43 scratchamod
43scratchscratchNOUNNumber=Sing33 waspappos
44ofofADP_48 scalescase
45aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art46 snakedet
46snakesnakeNOUNNumber=Sing48 scalesnmod:poss
47’s'sPART_46 snakecase
48scalesscaleNOUNNumber=Plur43 scratchnmod
49ononADP_52 workcase
50brickbrickNOUNNumber=Sing52 workcompound
51--PUNCT_50 brickpunct
52workworkNOUNNumber=Sing48 scalesnmod
53..PUNCT_11 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe housestill propertytree rules
2think speech: otherpasttikkivn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3catchcouldtikkithe faintest scratch scratchthe worlda noise as that oblvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scratch=Theme
4walkgerunda wasp not said herea window panevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pane=Trajectory
5scratcha snake's scales on brick worknom scratch «state transitive»: of=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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