The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 7, sentence 66
“Nearer!” hissed Kaa, and they all moved again.
Who acts: lines · What happens: hiss, move · To what, where: Kaa
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 (lines), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hissed | punct |
| 2 | Nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 hissed | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nearer | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nearer | punct |
| 5 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 moved | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 moved | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 moved | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 moved | advmod |
| 11 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hissed | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 moved | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hiss | past | Kaa | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaa=Topic | |||||
| 2 | move | past | lines = line | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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