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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 still | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 still | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 still | advmod |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 thought | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 still | case |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 still | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 catch | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 catch | aux |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 catch | advmod |
| 15 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 scratch | det |
| 17 | faintest | faint | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 scratch | amod |
| 18 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scratch | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 scratch | punct |
| 20 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catch | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scratch | nmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 noise | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 noise | det |
| 26 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catch | obl |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 faint | case |
| 28 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 that | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 noise | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 wasp | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 wasp | det |
| 33 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 that | nmod |
| 34 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 wasp | acl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 pane | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 pane | det |
| 37 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pane | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 window | punct |
| 39 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 walking | obl |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 scratch | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 scratch | det |
| 42 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 scratch | amod |
| 43 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wasp | appos |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 scales | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 snake | det |
| 46 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 scales | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 snake | case |
| 48 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 scratch | nmod |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 work | case |
| 50 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 work | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 brick | punct |
| 52 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 scales | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the house | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | tikki | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch | could | tikki | the faintest scratch scratch | the world | a noise as that obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scratch=Theme | ||
| 4 | walk | gerund | a wasp not said here | a window pane | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pane=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | scratch | a snake's scales on brick work | nom 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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