The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 81
Then he curled up ready for any accident, his head lowered.
Who acts: Snake, head · What happens: curl up, lower
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 (Snake, head), 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 curled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 curled | nsubj |
| 3 | curled | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 curled | compound:prt |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 curled | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 accident | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 accident | det |
| 8 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lowered | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lowered | nsubj |
| 12 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 curled | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 curled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl up | past | Snake | then | ready property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lower | past | Snake's head | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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