The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 53

He could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottle brush, and his war cry as he scuttled through the long grass was: “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!”

Who acts: Tikki, tail, war cry · What happens: fluff up, look, scuttle, be, cry · To what, where: tail, long grass, tikki tchk · 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 (Tikki, tail, war cry), 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	3 fluff	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fluff	aux
3	fluff	fluff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 fluff	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fluff	obj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 looked	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fluff	advcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 brush	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 brush	det
12	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brush	compound
13	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cry	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cry	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cry	nmod:poss
17	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cry	compound
18	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tchk	nsubj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 scuttled	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 scuttled	nsubj
21	scuttled	scuttle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cry	advcl
22	through	through	ADP	_	25 grass	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grass	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grass	amod
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 scuttled	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 tchk	cop
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 tchk	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 tchk	punct
29	Rikk	Rikk	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 tikk	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Rikk	punct
31	tikk	tikk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tikki	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 tikk	punct
33	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tikki	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 tikki	punct
35	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tchk	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 tchk	punct
37	tchk	tchk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fluff	parataxis
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 fluff	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 fluff	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fluff up	could	Tikki	Tikki's tail			tree rules
2	look	past	tail			like a bottle brush	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	scuttle	past	Tikki		the long grass		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory
4	is a in a quote	past	Tikki's war cry	tikki tchk			tree rules
5	cry		Tikki				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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