The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 142

Rikki-tikki knew he was a young mongoose, and it made him all the more pleased to think that he had managed to escape a blow from behind.

Who acts: Rikki tikki, Tikki, victory · What happens: know, be, make, think, manage, escape · To what, where: young mongoose, Tikki, blow · 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, Tikki, victory), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mongoose	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mongoose	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mongoose	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mongoose	amod
9	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 pleased	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pleased	det
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 pleased	advmod
18	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pleased	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 managed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 managed	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 managed	aux
24	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 think	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 escape	mark
26	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 managed	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 blow	det
28	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 escape	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 behind	case
30	behind	behind	ADV	_	26 escape	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	past	Rikki tikki		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	Tikki	a young mongoose	tree rules
3	make	past	victory	Tikki	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	victory not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	manage	past · perfect	Tikki		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	escape	to-infinitive	Tikki not said here	a blow	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blow=Initial_Location

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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