The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 101
But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.
Who acts: tikki, mongoose, cobra · What happens: not grow, keep, jump, spring, bite, dare · To what, where: garden, cobra, head, walls
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tikki, mongoose, cobra), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 grow | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 grow | advmod |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 proud | advmod |
| 7 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grow | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 proud | conj |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mongoose | det |
| 16 | mongoose | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 keep | aux |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kept | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tooth | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 tooth | case |
| 22 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 jump | cc |
| 24 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 keep | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 spring | cc |
| 26 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 jump | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bite | cc |
| 28 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 jump | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cobra | punct |
| 30 | till | till | ADP | _ | 33 cobra | case |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 cobra | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cobra | det |
| 33 | cobra | cobra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 show | nsubj |
| 34 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 cobra | acl |
| 35 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 jump | parataxis |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 show | obj |
| 38 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 40 walls | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 walls | det |
| 40 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 show | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | past · do-support | tikki | proud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | tikki | that garden | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | should | a mongoose | garden | with tooth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | jump | infinitive | a mongoose not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | spring | infinitive | a mongoose not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | bite | infinitive | a mongoose not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | dare | participle | a cobra not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | show | present | a cobra | garden's head | the walls | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/15/101/