The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 17

Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.

Who acts: Kaa, marble tracery, power smashing · What happens: look, find, discolor, show, make, get · To what, where: discolored crack, marble tracery, weak spot, two light taps, distance, six feet

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaa, marble tracery, power smashing), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 found	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crack	det
8	discolored	discolor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 crack	amod
9	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 tracery	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tracery	det
12	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tracery	compound
13	tracery	tracery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crack	nmod
14	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 tracery	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 spot	det
16	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spot	amod
17	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 showing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 taps	nummod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 three	cc
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 two	conj
23	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 taps	amod
24	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 made	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 head	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 distance	det
31	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lifting	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lifting	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 lifting	advmod
35	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 lifting	compound:prt
37	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 feet	nummod
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lifting	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 body	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 body	nmod:poss
41	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 feet	nmod
42	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lifting	xcomp
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 ground	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ground	det
45	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 clear	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 sent	punct
47	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
48	home	home	ADV	_	47 sent	advmod
49	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	51 dozen	det:predet
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 dozen	det
51	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 power	nummod
52	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 power	amod
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 full	punct
54	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 smashing	compound
55	smashing	smashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 blows	nsubj
56	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 sent	parataxis
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 first	punct
58	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 first	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 first	punct
60	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	56 blows	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Kaa				carefully property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	find	past	Kaa	a discolored crack	the marble tracery			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Topic
3	discolor	participle						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	show	gerund	the marble tracery not said here	a weak spot				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spot=Recipient
5	make	past	Kaa not said here	two light taps			with Kaa's head	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tap=Product
6	get	to-infinitive	Kaa not said here	the distance				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer distance=Stimulus
7	lift up	gerund	Kaa not said here	six feet of Kaa's body		then	clear property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
8	send	past					home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	blow	present	power smashing				first property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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