The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 92
Then Kaa came straight, quickly, and anxious to kill.
Who acts: Kaa · What happens: come, kill
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), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quickly | punct |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 anxious | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 anxious | cc |
| 9 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 kill | mark |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 anxious | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Kaa | then | quickly, straight property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | Kaa not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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