The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 84

He looked at the thickness of the neck below the hood, but that was too much for him; and a bite near the tail would only make Nag savage.

Who acts: tikki, that, bite, Nag · What happens: look, be, make, savage · To what, where: Nag

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 (tikki, that, bite, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 thickness	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thickness	det
5	thickness	thickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 neck	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 neck	det
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thickness	nmod
9	below	below	ADP	_	11 hood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hood	det
11	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 neck	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 much	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 much	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 much	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 much	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 much	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bite	det
23	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	nsubj
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 tail	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tail	det
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bite	nmod
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 make	advmod
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
30	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
31	savage	savage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 make	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	tikki		at the thickness of the neck below the hood	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thickness=Theme
2	is	past	that		for tikki; much property	tree rules
3	make	would	a bite near the tail	Nag		tree rules
4	savage	infinitive	Nag not said here			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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