The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 6

It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please, and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage.

Who acts: motion, gait, this · What happens: look, be, fly off, deal · To what, where: motion, advantage

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 (motion, gait, this), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 funny	advmod
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 balanced	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 balanced	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 balanced	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 balanced	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 balanced	advmod
10	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	11 balanced	advmod
11	balanced	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looks	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 gait	det
13	gait	gait	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 balanced	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fly	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 fly	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fly	aux
17	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gait	acl:relcl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 fly	compound:prt
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fly	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 angle	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 angle	det
23	angle	angle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fly	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 please	nsubj
25	please	please	INTJ	_	23 angle	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dealing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dealing	cc
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 dealing	mark
29	dealing	deal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 balanced	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 snakes	case
31	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dealing	obl
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 advantage	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 advantage	cop
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 advantage	det
35	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dealing	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	motion			funny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	motion			balance, perfectly property	tree rules
3	fly off	can	a gait		motion	at any angle	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at angle=Location
4	deal	gerund	motion not said here			with snakes	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snake=Theme
5	is a	present	this	a advantage			tree rules

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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