The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 103

Kaa was everything that the monkeys feared in the jungle, for none of them knew the limits of his power, none of them could look him in the face, and none had ever come alive out of his hug.

Who acts: everything, none, moss · What happens: be, fear, know, look, come, hug · To what, where: everything, jungle, limits, moss, face

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, none, moss), 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	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 everything	compound
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 everything	cop
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 feared	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 feared	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkeys	det
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feared	nsubj
7	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 jungle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jungle	det
10	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feared	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	16 knew	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 none	nmod
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feared	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 limits	det
18	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 knew	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 power	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 power	nmod:poss
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 limits	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 look	punct
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	27 look	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 none	nmod
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 look	aux
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knew	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 look	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 face	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 face	det
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 come	cc
34	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	37 come	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 come	advmod
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 feared	conj
38	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 come	xcomp
39	out	out	ADP	_	42 hug	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 hug	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hug	nmod:poss
42	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 alive	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		everything				tree rules
2	fear	past	everything		the jungle			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	know	past	none	the limits of moss's power				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer limit=Stimulus
4	look	could	none	moss	the face			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute
5	come	past	none			ever	alive property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hug		moss					nom hug «act transitive»: poss=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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