The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 49

Darzee, the Tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice, but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting.

Who acts: Darzee, muskrat, Chuchundra, Rikki tikki · What happens: help, not come out, creep, give, do · To what, where: Tavi, middle, advice, real fighting

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 (Darzee, muskrat, Chuchundra, 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	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 helped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Tailorbird	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tailorbird	det
4	Tailorbird	Tailorbird	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Darzee	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Darzee	punct
6	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 helped	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gave	cc
10	Chuchundra	Chuchundra	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 gave	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 muskrat	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 muskrat	det
13	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Chuchundra	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 comes	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 comes	advmod
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 muskrat	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 comes	compound:prt
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 floor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floor	det
24	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 middle	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 creeps	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 creeps	cc
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 creeps	advmod
28	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 comes	conj
29	round	round	ADV	_	28 creeps	advmod
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 wall	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wall	det
32	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 creeps	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gave	punct
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 helped	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gave	iobj
36	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gave	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 did	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 did	cc
39	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 tikki	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Rikki	punct
41	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 did	nsubj
42	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 helped	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fighting	det
44	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 fighting	amod
45	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 did	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	past	Darzee and the Tailorbird		Tavi			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
2	not come out	present	the muskrat			the middle of the floor		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	creep	present	the muskrat not said here				by the wall; always, round property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wall=Trajectory
4	give	past	Chuchundra	advice	Tavi			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient advice=Theme
5	do	past	Rikki tikki	the real fighting				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fighting=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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