The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 106
Then Kaa opened his mouth for the first time and spoke one long hissing word, and the far-away monkeys, hurrying to the defense of the Cold Lairs, stayed where they were, cowering, till the loaded branches bent and crackled under them.
Who acts: Kaa, monkeys · What happens: open, speak, hurry, stay, cower, load · To what, where: mouth, one long hissing word, defense, loaded branches · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kaa, monkeys), 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 opened | advmod |
| 2 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spoke | cc |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 word | nummod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 word | amod |
| 14 | hissing | hissing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 word | compound |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoke | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 monkeys | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 monkeys | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 monkeys | det |
| 19 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 monkeys | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 away | punct |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 far | advmod |
| 22 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hurrying | punct |
| 24 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 opened | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 defense | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 defense | det |
| 27 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hurrying | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Lairs | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Lairs | det |
| 30 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Lairs | amod |
| 31 | Lairs | lair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 defense | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stayed | punct |
| 33 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 cowering | advmod |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 cowering | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 cowering | aux |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cowering | punct |
| 38 | cowering | cower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 stayed | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 branches | punct |
| 40 | till | till | ADP | _ | 43 branches | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 branches | det |
| 42 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 branches | amod |
| 43 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cowering | obl |
| 44 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 branches | acl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 crackled | cc |
| 46 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 bent | conj |
| 47 | under | under | ADP | _ | 48 them | case |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 crackled | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Kaa | Kaa's mouth | then; time | the far monkeys obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Kaa not said here | one long hissing word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurry | gerund | Kaa not said here | the defense of the Cold Lairs | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to defense=Destination | ||||
| 4 | stay | past | Kaa not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cower | past · progressive | monkeys = monkey | till the loaded branches | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | load | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | bend | participle | the loaded branches not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | crackle | participle | under monkeys = monkey | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under they=Location |
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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