The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 88

The head was lying a little clear of the water jar, under the curve of it; and, as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head.

Who acts: head, teeth, Rikki · What happens: lie, meet, brace, hold down, clear · To what, where: little clear, curve, back, head, water jar

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 (head, teeth, Rikki), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 head	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 clear	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clear	amod
7	clear	clear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 jar	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jar	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jar	compound
11	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clear	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 curve	punct
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 curve	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 curve	det
15	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 curve	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 braced	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 braced	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 met	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 teeth	nmod:poss
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 met	nsubj
24	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 braced	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 met	punct
26	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 braced	nsubj
27	braced	brace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	parataxis
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 back	nmod:poss
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 braced	obj
30	against	against	ADP	_	32 bulge	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bulge	det
32	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 braced	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 earthenware	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 earthenware	det
35	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 earthenware	amod
36	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bulge	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 hold	mark
38	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 earthenware	acl
39	down	down	ADP	_	38 hold	compound:prt
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 head	det
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hold	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	the head	a little clear of the water jar	the curve of curve		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clear=Theme
2	meet	past	tikki's teeth				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	brace	past	Rikki	tikki's back		against the bulge of the red earthenware	tree rules
4	hold down	to-infinitive	Rikki not said here	the head			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	clear			the water jar			nom clear «state transitive»: of=patient

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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