The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 133
Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot (when a mongoose’s eyes grow red, he is angry), and he sat back on his tail and hind legs like a little kangaroo, and looked all round him, and chattered with rage.
Who acts: Rikki tikki, eyes, Tikki · What happens: feel, grow, be, sit back, look, chatter · To what, where: eyes, tail
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, eyes, 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 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 felt | obj |
| 7 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 eyes | acl |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 growing | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hot | cc |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 red | conj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 grow | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 grow | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mongoose | det |
| 14 | mongoose | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 mongoose | case |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grow | nsubj |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | parataxis |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grow | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 angry | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 angry | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 angry | cop |
| 22 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 red | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 grow | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sat | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sat | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sat | nsubj |
| 27 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | parataxis |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 sat | advmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 tail | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 tail | nmod:poss |
| 31 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sat | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 legs | cc |
| 33 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 legs | amod |
| 34 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 tail | conj |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 38 kangaroo | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 kangaroo | det |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 kangaroo | amod |
| 38 | kangaroo | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 legs | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 looked | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 looked | cc |
| 41 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sat | conj |
| 42 | all | all | ADV | _ | 44 him | advmod |
| 43 | round | round | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 looked | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 chattered | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 chattered | cc |
| 47 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 looked | conj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 rage | case |
| 49 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 chattered | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Rikki tikki | Tikki's eyes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | Tikki's eyes not said here | red property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | a mongoose's eyes | red property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Tikki | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit back | past | Tikki | Tikki's tail and hind legs like a little kangaroo | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tail=Location | ||||
| 6 | look | past | Tikki not said here | round Tikki | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | chatter | past | Tikki not said here | with rage | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rage=Co-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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