The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 54

Begins now the dance--the Dance of the Hunger of Kaa.

What happens: begin · To what, where: dance

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: 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	Begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dance	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dance	det
4	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Begins	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 Dance	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Dance	det
7	Dance	Dance	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dance	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Hunger	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Hunger	det
10	Hunger	Hunger	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Dance	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Kaa	case
12	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Hunger	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Begins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present		the dance					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality

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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