The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 77

So he sang a very mournful song that he made up on the spur of the minute, and just as he got to the most touching part, the grass quivered again, and Rikki-tikki, covered with dirt, dragged himself out of the hole leg by leg, licking his whiskers.

Who acts: tikki, mournful song, grass, Rikki tikki · What happens: sing, make up, get, touch, quiver, cover · To what, where: mournful song, spur, Rikki tikki, tikki, hole leg, whiskers

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 (tikki, mournful song, grass, Rikki tikki), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sang	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 mournful	advmod
6	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 song	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 made	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 spur	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spur	det
14	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 minute	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 minute	det
17	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spur	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 got	cc
20	just	just	ADV	_	23 got	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 got	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 part	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 part	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 touching	advmod
27	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 part	amod
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 quivered	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grass	det
31	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 quivered	nsubj
32	quivered	quiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 got	conj
33	again	again	ADV	_	32 quivered	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dragged	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dragged	cc
36	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 tikki	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Rikki	punct
38	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dragged	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 covered	punct
40	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 tikki	acl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 dirt	case
42	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 covered	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tikki	punct
44	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 dragged	obj
46	out	out	ADP	_	50 leg	case
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 leg	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 leg	det
49	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 leg	compound
50	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dragged	obl
51	by	by	ADP	_	52 leg	case
52	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dragged	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 licking	punct
54	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 dragged	advcl
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 whiskers	nmod:poss
56	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 licking	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	tikki	a mournful song				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	make up	past	a mournful song		the spur of the minute			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	tikki				to the touching part result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to part=Result
4	touch	gerund						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	quiver	past	the grass			again		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	cover	participle		Rikki tikki not said here			with dirt	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dirt=Theme
7	drag	past	Rikki tikki	tikki	the hole leg		by leg	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme out leg=Initial_Location
8	lick	gerund	Rikki tikki not said here	tikki's whiskers				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent whisker=Source
9	spur			the minute				nom spur «communication transitive»: of=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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