The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 121
Ts!” said Kaa, weaving his head to and fro.
Who acts: Ts · What happens: say, weave, fro · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ts), 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 | Ts | t | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ts | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ts | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 weaving | punct |
| 7 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weaving | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fro | case |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fro | cc |
| 12 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 weaving | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weave in a quote | gerund | Ts not said here | Kaa's head | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Product | ||||
| 3 | fro in a quote | infinitive | Ts not said here | 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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