The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 66

She headed straight for the long grass by the thorn-bush, and as he was running Rikki-tikki heard Darzee still singing his foolish little song of triumph.

Who acts: trouble, tikki, triumph · What happens: head, run, hear, sing · To what, where: Rikki tikki, Darzee, foolish little 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 (trouble, tikki, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 headed	nsubj
2	headed	head	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	2 headed	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grass	amod
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 headed	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 bush	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bush	det
10	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bush	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 thorn	punct
12	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 headed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heard	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 running	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 running	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 running	aux
18	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 heard	advcl
19	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 tikki	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Rikki	punct
21	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 running	obj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 headed	parataxis
23	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 singing	advmod
25	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 heard	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 song	nmod:poss
27	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 song	amod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 song	amod
29	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 singing	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 triumph	case
31	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 song	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 headed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	head	past	trouble			for the long grass; by the thorn bush; straight property	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	run	past · progressive	tikki	Rikki tikki			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tikki=Trajectory
3	hear	past		Darzee			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer darzee=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express	gerund		tikki's foolish little song of triumph	still		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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