The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 63

It still lay on the veranda, and Nagaina came nearer and nearer to it, till at last, while Rikki-tikki was drawing breath, she caught it in her mouth, turned to the veranda steps, and flew like an arrow down the path, with Rikki-tikki behind her.

Who acts: matting, Nagaina, Rikki tikki · What happens: lay, come, draw, catch, turn, fly · To what, where: veranda, breath, matting, mouth, path

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 (matting, Nagaina, Rikki tikki), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 veranda	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 veranda	det
6	veranda	veranda	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
9	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
11	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 came	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nearer	cc
13	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 nearer	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 nearer	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 last	case
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drawing	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 drawing	mark
22	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tikki	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Rikki	punct
24	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drawing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drawing	aux
26	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
27	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drawing	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 caught	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 caught	nsubj
30	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 caught	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 mouth	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mouth	nmod:poss
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 caught	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 turned	punct
36	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 caught	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 steps	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 steps	det
39	veranda	veranda	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 steps	compound
40	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 turned	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 flew	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 flew	cc
43	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
44	like	like	ADP	_	46 arrow	case
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 arrow	det
46	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flew	obl
47	down	down	ADP	_	49 path	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 path	det
49	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flew	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 tikki	punct
51	with	with	ADP	_	54 tikki	case
52	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 tikki	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 Rikki	punct
54	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flew	conj
55	behind	behind	ADP	_	56 her	case
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 tikki	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	matting		the veranda	still		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on veranda=Destination
2	come	past	Nagaina				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw	past · progressive	Rikki tikki	breath				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
4	catch	past	Nagaina	matting	Nagaina's mouth			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	turn	past	Nagaina not said here				to the veranda steps	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to step=Trajectory
6	fly	past			the path		like a arrow	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down path=Trajectory

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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