The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 34
Nagaina spun clear round, forgetting everything for the sake of the one egg.
Who acts: Nagaina · What happens: spin, forget · To what, where: everything
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 (Nagaina), 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 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spun | nsubj |
| 2 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 round | amod |
| 4 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spun | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgetting | punct |
| 6 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spun | advcl |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 forgetting | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sake | det |
| 10 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgetting | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 egg | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 egg | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 egg | compound |
| 14 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sake | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | past | Nagaina | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | gerund | Nagaina not said here | everything | for the sake of the one egg | 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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