The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 114

He was afraid for the minute, but it is impossible for a mongoose to stay frightened for any length of time, and though Rikki-tikki had never met a live cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all a grown mongoose’s business in life was to fight and eat snakes.

Who acts: Tikki, Rikki tikki, business · What happens: be, stay, frighten, not meet, feed, know · To what, where: live cobra, mother, snakes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tikki, Rikki tikki, business), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 minute	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 minute	det
6	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 impossible	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 impossible	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 impossible	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 impossible	cop
11	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 afraid	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 mongoose	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mongoose	det
14	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 impossible	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stay	mark
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 impossible	advcl
17	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stay	xcomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 length	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 length	det
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 frightened	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 time	case
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 length	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 met	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 met	cc
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 met	mark
26	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 tikki	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Rikki	punct
28	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 met	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 met	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 met	advmod
31	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 afraid	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cobra	det
33	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cobra	amod
34	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 met	obj
35	before	before	ADV	_	31 met	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fed	punct
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mother	nmod:poss
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fed	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 fed	aux
40	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 met	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fed	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 ones	case
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ones	amod
44	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 fed	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 knew	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 knew	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 knew	nsubj
48	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	conj
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 fight	mark
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 a	det:predet
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 mongoose	det
52	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 mongoose	amod
53	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 business	nmod:poss
54	’s	's	PART	_	53 mongoose	case
55	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 fight	nsubj
56	in	in	ADP	_	57 life	case
57	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 business	nmod
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 fight	cop
59	to	to	PART	_	60 fight	mark
60	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 knew	ccomp
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 eat	cc
62	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 fight	conj
63	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 eat	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tikki		minute	afraid property	tree rules
2	is	present	Tikki not said here			for a mongoose; impossible property	tree rules
3	stay	to-infinitive	Tikki not said here				tree rules
4	frighten	participle	Tikki not said here			for any length of time	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	not meet	past · perfect	Rikki tikki	a live cobra		before property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cobra=Co-Agent
6	feed	past · perfect · passive		Tikki's mother		on dead ones	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
7	know	past	Tikki				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	a grown mongoose's business in life			fight property	tree rules
10	eat	infinitive	a grown mongoose's business in life not said here	snakes			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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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