The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 116

“Well,” said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, “marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?”

Who acts: Rikki tikki, tail, you, it · What happens: say, begin, fluff up, think, be, eat · To what, where: marks, fledglings, nest · 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 (Rikki tikki, tail, you, it), 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 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tikki	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Rikki	punct
8	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tail	nmod:poss
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fluff	mark
15	fluff	fluff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 fluff	compound:prt
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 fluff	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 marks	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 marks	punct
20	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fluff	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 marks	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 marks	det
23	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 marks	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 think	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 right	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 right	cop
30	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 think	ccomp
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 eat	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 eat	nsubj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 eat	mark
34	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 right	ccomp
35	fledglings	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 eat	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 nest	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 nest	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 nest	det
39	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eat	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 right	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Rikki tikki					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	Tikki's tail					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fluff up	to-infinitive	Tikki's tail not said here	marks or no marks		again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	it				right property	tree rules
6	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	you	fledglings	a nest			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fledgling=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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