The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 68

She flew off her nest as Nagaina came along, and flapped her wings about Nagaina’s head.

Who acts: wife, Nagaina · What happens: fly off, come along, flap · To what, where: nest, wings

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 (wife, Nagaina), 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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 nest	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nest	nmod:poss
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	advcl
9	along	along	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flapped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flapped	cc
12	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flapped	obj
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 head	case
16	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 head	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Nagaina	case
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flapped	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	wife	wife's nest		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nest=Theme
2	come along	past	Nagaina		along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flap	past	wife not said here	wife's wings	about Nagaina's head	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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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