The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 136

Rikki-tikki did not care to follow them, for he did not feel sure that he could manage two snakes at once.

Who acts: Rikki tikki, Tikki · What happens: not care, follow, not feel, manage · To what, where: eyes, two snakes

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, 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	6 care	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 follow	mark
8	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 care	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 follow	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 feel	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feel	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 feel	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 feel	advmod
15	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 care	conj
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feel	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 manage	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 manage	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 manage	aux
20	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	ccomp
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 snakes	nummod
22	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 manage	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 once	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 manage	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	Rikki tikki			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	follow	to-infinitive	Rikki tikki not said here	eyes = eye		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	not feel	past · do-support	Tikki		sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	manage	could	Tikki	two snakes		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent snake=Theme at once=Eventuality

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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