The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 49
Nagaina saw that she had lost her chance of killing Teddy, and the egg lay between Rikki-tikki’s paws.
Who acts: Nagaina, chance, egg · What happens: see, lose, kill, lie, chance · To what, where: chance, Teddy, paws · Speech: someone speaks here
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, chance, egg), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 lost | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 killing | mark |
| 10 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 chance | acl |
| 11 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 killing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 egg | det |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 paws | case |
| 18 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tikki | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Rikki | punct |
| 20 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 tikki | case |
| 22 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lay | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Nagaina | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | Nagaina | Nagaina's chance | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | Nagaina's chance not said here | Teddy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teddy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | the egg | Rikki tikki's paws | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between paw=Location | ||||
| 5 | chance | Nagaina | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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