The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 57

Then he began making loops and figures of eight with his body, and soft, oozy triangles that melted into squares and five-sided figures, and coiled mounds, never resting, never hurrying, and never stopping his low humming song.

Who acts: Kaa, soft oozy triangles, coiled mounds · What happens: begin, make, melt, not rest, not hurry, not stop · To what, where: loops, squares, low humming song

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, soft oozy triangles, coiled mounds), 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 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	loops	loop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 figures	cc
7	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loops	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 eight	case
9	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 figures	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 body	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 body	nmod:poss
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 melted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 melted	cc
15	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 triangles	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 soft	punct
17	oozy	oozy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 triangles	amod
18	triangles	triangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 melted	nsubj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 melted	nsubj
20	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 squares	case
22	squares	square	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 melted	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 figures	cc
24	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 sided	nummod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 five	punct
26	sided	sided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 figures	amod
27	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 squares	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 resting	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 resting	cc
30	coiled	coiled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mounds	amod
31	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 resting	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 resting	punct
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 resting	advmod
34	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hurrying	punct
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 hurrying	advmod
37	hurrying	hurry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 resting	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stopping	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 stopping	cc
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 stopping	advmod
41	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 song	nmod:poss
43	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 song	amod
44	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 song	compound
45	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stopping	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Kaa			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund	Kaa not said here	loops and figures of eight			with Kaa's body	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loop=Product
3	melt	past	soft oozy triangles		squares and sided figures			vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into square=Product
4	not rest	gerund	coiled mounds					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not hurry	gerund	coiled mounds not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not stop	gerund	Kaa not said here	Kaa's low humming song				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality song=Eventuality
7	sing		Kaa					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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