The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 125
Rikki-tikki knew better than to waste time in staring.
Who acts: Rikki tikki · What happens: know, waste, stare · 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), 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 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rikki | punct |
| 3 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 knew | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 waste | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 waste | mark |
| 8 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waste | obj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 staring | mark |
| 11 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 waste | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Rikki tikki | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | waste | to-infinitive | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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