The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 69

If Darzee had helped they might have turned her, but Nagaina only lowered her hood and went on.

Who acts: Darzee, wings, Nagaina · What happens: help, turn, lower, go on · To what, where: Darzee, hood

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 (Darzee, wings, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 helped	mark
2	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 helped	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 helped	aux
4	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turned	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 turned	aux
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 helped	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turned	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lowered	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 lowered	cc
12	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lowered	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 lowered	advmod
14	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 helped	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hood	nmod:poss
16	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lowered	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lowered	conj
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	past · perfect	Darzee		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	turn	might · perfect	wings = wing	Darzee	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result
3	lower	past	Nagaina	Nagaina's hood	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme
4	go on	past	Nagaina not said here		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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