The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 79

Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death.

Who acts: Nag, Rikki tikki · What happens: coil down, round, stay · To what, where: Nag, bulge, bottom

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 tikki), 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	down	down	ADP	_	2 coiled	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 coil	punct
6	coil	coil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coiled	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 coil	case
8	coil	coil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coil	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 round	punct
10	round	round	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 coiled	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bulge	det
12	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 round	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 bottom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bottom	det
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 round	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 jar	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 jar	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jar	compound
19	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bottom	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stayed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stayed	cc
22	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tikki	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Rikki	punct
24	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stayed	nsubj
25	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 coiled	conj
26	still	still	ADV	_	25 stayed	advmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 death	case
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stayed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 coiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coil down	past	Nag	Nag			coil by coil obl	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent himself=Material
2	round	infinitive		the bulge	the bottom of the water jar			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bulge=Patient
3	stay	past	Rikki tikki			still	as death	vn exist-47.1 «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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