The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 55
At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight.
Who acts: brick, Rikki tikki, tikki, Nag · What happens: be, pull out, make, steal in, put, hear · To what, where: bottom, brick, sluice, bath, Nag, moonlight
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 (brick, Rikki tikki, tikki, Nag), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 bottom | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bottom | det |
| 3 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 6 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wall | amod |
| 7 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wall | compound |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottom | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 brick | det |
| 12 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 brick | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pulled | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pulled | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sluice | det |
| 18 | sluice | sluice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 21 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | compound |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sluice | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stole | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stole | cc |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 stole | mark |
| 26 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tikki | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Rikki | punct |
| 28 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stole | nsubj |
| 29 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 was | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 stole | compound:prt |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 curb | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 curb | det |
| 33 | masonry | masonry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 curb | compound |
| 34 | curb | curb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stole | obl |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 put | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 bath | det |
| 37 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 put | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 put | aux:pass |
| 39 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 curb | acl:relcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 heard | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 heard | nsubj |
| 42 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 was | conj |
| 43 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 heard | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Nagaina | cc |
| 45 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Nag | conj |
| 46 | whispering | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 heard | xcomp |
| 47 | together | together | ADV | _ | 46 whispering | advmod |
| 48 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 46 whispering | advmod |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 moonlight | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 moonlight | det |
| 51 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 whispering | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a brick | the bottom of the smooth plaster wall; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location | ||||
| 2 | pull out | participle | a brick not said here | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | a sluice | for the bath water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sluice=Product for water=Asset | ||||
| 4 | steal in | past | Rikki tikki | by the masonry curb | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by curb=Location | ||||
| 5 | put | present · passive | the bath | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 6 | hear | past | tikki | Nag and Nagaina | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | Nag and Nagaina not said here | the moonlight | outside, together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location |
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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