The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 73

Then the grass by the mouth of the hole stopped waving, and Darzee said, “It is all over with Rikki-tikki!

Who acts: grass, Darzee · What happens: stop, wave, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grass, Darzee), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stopped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grass	det
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	nsubj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouth	det
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grass	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hole	det
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouth	nmod
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stopped	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 over	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 over	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 over	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 over	cop
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 over	advmod
21	over	over	ADV	_	15 said	ccomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 tikki	case
23	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 tikki	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Rikki	punct
25	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 over	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the grass by the mouth of the hole	then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	wave	gerund	the grass by the mouth of the hole not said here			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	Darzee			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	grass		with Rikki tikki; all, over property	tree rules

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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