The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 143
It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted.
Who acts: victory, Teddy, Rikki tikki · What happens: give, come, run down, be, pet · To what, where: confidence, Tikki, path
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 (victory, Teddy, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 gave | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ready | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ready | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ready | advcl |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 path | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 path | det |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 running | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 17 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tikki | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Rikki | punct |
| 19 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ready | cop |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gave | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 petted | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 petted | aux:pass |
| 24 | petted | pet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ready | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | victory | confidence | Tikki | in Tikki | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient confidence=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | Teddy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run down | gerund | Teddy not said here | the path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Rikki tikki | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pet | to-infinitive · passive | Rikki tikki not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» |
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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