The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 65

He looked at the cotton wool, decided that it was not good to eat, ran all round the table, sat up and put his fur in order, scratched himself, and jumped on the small boy’s shoulder.

Who acts: Tikki, it · What happens: look, decide, not be, eat, run, sit up · To what, where: table, fur, order, Tikki, shoulder · 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, it), 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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 wool	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wool	det
5	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wool	compound
6	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 decided	punct
8	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 good	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 good	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 good	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 good	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 decided	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 good	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ran	punct
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
18	all	all	ADV	_	21 table	advmod
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 table	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 table	det
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ran	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sat	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fur	nmod:poss
28	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 order	case
30	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 scratched	punct
32	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	conj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 scratched	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 jumped	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 jumped	cc
36	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	42 shoulder	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 boy	det
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 boy	amod
40	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 shoulder	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 boy	case
42	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 jumped	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Tikki			at the cotton wool	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wool=Theme
2	decide	past	Tikki not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	it			good property	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	run	past	Tikki not said here		the table		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round table=Trajectory
6	sit up	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	put	infinitive		Tikki's fur	order		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fur=Theme in order=Destination
8	scratch	past		Tikki			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
9	jump	past	Tikki not said here		the small boy's shoulder		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Trajectory

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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