The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 26

Little Toomai was just going to sleep, too, when he heard the coir string snap with a little “tang,” and Kala Nag rolled out of his pickets as slowly and as silently as a cloud rolls out of the mouth of a valley.

Who acts: Little Toomai, Toomai, Kala, cloud · What happens: go, sleep, hear, roll out · To what, where: string snap, pickets, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Toomai, Toomai, Kala, cloud), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Toomai	amod
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 too	punct
9	too	too	ADV	_	7 sleep	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 heard	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 snap	det
15	coir	coir	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 string	compound
16	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snap	compound
17	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 tang	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tang	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tang	amod
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 tang	punct
22	tang	tang	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rolled	cc
26	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 rolled	nsubj
27	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Kala	flat
28	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 pickets	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 pickets	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pickets	nmod:poss
32	pickets	picket	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rolled	obl
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 slowly	advmod
34	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	28 rolled	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 silently	cc
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 silently	advmod
37	silently	silently	ADV	_	34 slowly	conj
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 rolls	mark
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cloud	det
40	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rolls	nsubj
41	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 rolled	advcl
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 mouth	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 mouth	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 mouth	det
45	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rolls	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 valley	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 valley	det
48	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 mouth	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Little Toomai			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	Little Toomai not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	Toomai	the string snap	with a little tang	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snap=Stimulus
4	roll out	past	Kala	Kala's pickets	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picket=Agent
5	roll out	present	a cloud	the mouth of a valley		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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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