The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 90

He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice, to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order.

Who acts: Kaa, intention, foot · What happens: have, lose, uncoil, be · To what, where: intention, advantage, Kaa, working order

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, intention, foot), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 intention	det
4	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 losing	mark
6	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 intention	acl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 advantage	det
8	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 losing	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 advantage	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 coiled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 coiled	cc
14	coiled	coiled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 uncoiled	cc
16	uncoiled	uncoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 uncoiled	obj
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 uncoiled	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 twice	cc
20	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 once	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sure	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	24 sure	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 sure	cop
24	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 uncoiled	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 order	mark
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 foot	det
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 order	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 body	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 body	nmod:poss
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 body	amod
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 foot	nmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 order	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 order	case
34	working	working	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 order	amod
35	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sure	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Kaa	no intention			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient
2	lose	gerund	no intention not said here	any advantage of the ground			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Eventuality
3	uncoil	past	Kaa not said here	Kaa		once property	vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
5	is	past	every foot of Kaa's long body		working order		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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