The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 61
Then Rikki-tikki danced in a circle to get behind her, and Nagaina spun round to keep her head to his head, so that the rustle of her tail on the matting sounded like dry leaves blown along by the wind.
Who acts: Rikki, rustle, tail · What happens: dance, get, spin round, keep, sound, blow · To what, where: tikki, circle, head, dry leaves, matting
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 (Rikki, rustle, tail), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 spun | advmod |
| 2 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 spun | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 tikki | punct |
| 4 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rikki | appos |
| 5 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tikki | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 circle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 circle | det |
| 8 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 danced | advcl |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spun | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spun | cc |
| 15 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 spun | nsubj |
| 16 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 spun | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 spun | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sounded | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 sounded | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rustle | det |
| 29 | rustle | rustle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sounded | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 tail | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 tail | nmod:poss |
| 32 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rustle | nmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 matting | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 matting | det |
| 35 | matting | matting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rustle | nmod |
| 36 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spun | conj |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 leaves | case |
| 38 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 leaves | amod |
| 39 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sounded | obl |
| 40 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 leaves | acl |
| 41 | along | along | ADV | _ | 40 blown | advmod |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 wind | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wind | det |
| 44 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 blown | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 spun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | participle | tikki not said here | a circle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | behind Rikki | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | spin round | past | Rikki | then | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | Rikki not said here | Nagaina's head | to head's head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 5 | sound | past | the rustle of Nagaina's tail on the matting | like dry leaves | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | blow | participle | dry leaves not said here | by the wind; along property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | rustle | Nagaina's tail | the matting | nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=agent on=place |
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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