The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 64
When the cobra runs for her life, she goes like a whip-lash flicked across a horse’s neck.
Who acts: cobra · What happens: run, go, flick · To what, where: whip lash, neck
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 (cobra), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 runs | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cobra | det |
| 3 | cobra | cobra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 goes | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 runs | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 lash | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lash | det |
| 13 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lash | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 whip | punct |
| 15 | lash | lash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 16 | flicked | flick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lash | acl |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 neck | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 horse | det |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flicked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | the cobra | for cobra's life | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | go | present | cobra | like a whip lash | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flick | participle | a whip lash not said here | a horse's neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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