The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 60

Again and again and again she struck, and each time her head came with a whack on the matting of the veranda and she gathered herself together like a watch spring.

Who acts: Nagaina, head · What happens: strike, come, gather · To what, where: matting, Nagaina

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, head), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	7 struck	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 again	cc
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Again	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 again	cc
5	again	again	ADV	_	1 Again	conj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 struck	nsubj
7	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl:unmarked
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 struck	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 whack	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 whack	det
17	whack	whack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 matting	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 matting	det
20	matting	matting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 veranda	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 veranda	det
23	veranda	veranda	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 matting	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gathered	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gathered	nsubj
26	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 struck	conj
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 gathered	obj
28	together	together	ADV	_	26 gathered	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 spring	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 spring	det
31	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spring	compound
32	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gathered	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	Nagaina			again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	come	past	Nagaina's head		the matting of the veranda	time	with a whack	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on matting=Location
3	gather	past	Nagaina	Nagaina		spring	together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme

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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