The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 50

He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.

Who acts: Tikki · What happens: be · To what, where: mongoose

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mongoose	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mongoose	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mongoose	det
4	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cat	punct
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 cat	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cat	amod
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mongoose	appos
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 fur	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fur	nmod:poss
13	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cat	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tail	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tail	nmod:poss
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fur	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 weasel	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 weasel	cc
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 weasel	advmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 weasel	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 weasel	det
22	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mongoose	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weasel	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 habits	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 habits	nmod:poss
28	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 head	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mongoose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Tikki	a mongoose but a weasel in Tikki's head and Tikki's habits					tree rules

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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