The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 5

Nagaina was coiled up on the matting by Teddy’s chair, within easy striking distance of Teddy’s bare leg, and she was swaying to and fro, singing a song of triumph.

Who acts: Nagaina, triumph · What happens: coil up, sway, fro, sing · To what, where: Nagaina, matting, song

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, triumph), 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	3 coiled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 coiled	aux:pass
3	coiled	coil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 coiled	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 matting	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 matting	det
7	matting	matting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coiled	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 chair	case
9	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 chair	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Teddy	case
11	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coiled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 distance	punct
13	within	within	ADP	_	16 distance	case
14	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 distance	amod
15	striking	striking	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 distance	compound
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coiled	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 leg	case
18	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 leg	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Teddy	case
20	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leg	amod
21	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 distance	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swaying	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 swaying	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 swaying	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 swaying	aux
26	swaying	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 coiled	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	26 swaying	fixed
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fro	cc
29	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 swaying	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 singing	punct
31	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 swaying	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 song	det
33	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 singing	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 triumph	case
35	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 song	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 coiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	coil up	past · passive		Nagaina	the matting	by Teddy's chair; within easy striking distance of Teddy's bare leg	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme on matting=Source by chair=Trajectory
2	sway	past · progressive	Nagaina				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fro	infinitive	Nagaina not said here				tree rules
4	sing speech: express	gerund	Nagaina not said here	a song of triumph			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
5	sing		triumph				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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