The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 154

Then it came on straight toward the Viceroy and the Amir, and as it got nearer the ground began to shake, like the deck of a steamer when the engines are going fast.

Who acts: circle, ground, engines · What happens: come on, get, begin, shake, go · To what, where: Viceroy, deck

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (circle, ground, engines), 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	3 came	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 Viceroy	advmod
6	toward	toward	ADP	_	8 Viceroy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Viceroy	det
8	Viceroy	Viceroy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Amir	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Amir	det
11	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Viceroy	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 got	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
17	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 got	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 got	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 shake	mark
22	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 deck	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 deck	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 deck	det
26	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shake	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 steamer	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 steamer	det
29	steamer	steamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deck	nmod
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 going	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 engines	det
32	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 going	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 going	aux
34	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 shake	advcl
35	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 going	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come on	past	circle		the Viceroy and the Amir	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward viceroy=Initial_Location
2	get	past	circle				near property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	past	the ground					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	shake	to-infinitive	the ground not said here	the deck of a steamer				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent deck=Patient
5	go	present · progressive	the engines				fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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