The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 89

Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch.

Who acts: Kaa, wrench · What happens: have, work, land, dislodge · To what, where: way, west wall, coping stone, ditch

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, wrench), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 worked	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 worked	advmod
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
10	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wall	compound
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 landing	punct
13	landing	land	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 worked	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 wrench	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wrench	det
16	wrench	wrench	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 landing	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 dislodged	nsubj
18	dislodged	dislodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrench	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stone	det
20	coping	coping	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stone	compound
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dislodged	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 ditch	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ditch	det
24	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dislodged	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Kaa				tree rules
2	work	past	Kaa not said here	Kaa's way	the west wall		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material
3	land	gerund	Kaa not said here			with a wrench	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dislodge	past	a wrench	a coping stone	the ditch		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme

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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