The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 58
It grew darker and darker, till at last the dragging, shifting coils disappeared, but they could hear the rustle of the scales.
Who acts: song, coils, scales · What happens: grow, shift, disappear, hear, rustle · To what, where: rustle
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 (song, coils, scales), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 darker | cc |
| 5 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 darker | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 last | punct |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragging | det |
| 11 | dragging | dragging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 last | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shifting | punct |
| 13 | shifting | shift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 grew | advcl |
| 14 | coils | coil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 disappeared | nsubj |
| 15 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shifting | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hear | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 hear | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hear | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hear | aux |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grew | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rustle | det |
| 22 | rustle | rustle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hear | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 scales | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 scales | det |
| 25 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rustle | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | song | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shift | gerund | song not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | disappear | past | coils | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hear | could | coils = coil | the rustle of the scales | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustle=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | rustle | the scales | nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=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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