The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 116

Kaa hissed, and the city was silent once more.

Who acts: Kaa, city · What happens: hiss, be

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, city), 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	2 hissed	nsubj
2	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 silent	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 silent	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 silent	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 silent	cop
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hissed	conj
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 hissed	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	past	Kaa						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the city					silent property	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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