The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 69
Nag coiled himself up, raised his head, and looked into the bathroom in the dark, and Rikki could see his eyes glitter.
Who acts: Nag, Rikki, eyes · What happens: coil up, raise, look, see, glitter · To what, where: Nag, head · 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 (Nag, Rikki, eyes), 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 | Nag | nag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coiled | nsubj |
| 2 | coiled | coil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 coiled | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 coiled | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 raised | punct |
| 6 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 coiled | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 coiled | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bathroom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bathroom | det |
| 14 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 dark | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dark | det |
| 17 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 20 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 coiled | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 glitter | nsubj |
| 25 | glitter | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 coiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coil up | past | Nag | Nag | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent himself=Material | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | Nag not said here | Nag's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Nag not said here | in the dark; into the bathroom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into bathroom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | could | Rikki | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | glitter | present | Nag's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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