The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 69
He’s tickling under my chin,” said Teddy.
Who acts: Tikki, Teddy · What happens: tickle, say · To what, where: chin · 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, Teddy), 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 tickling | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tickling | aux |
| 3 | tickling | tickle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 chin | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tickling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tickling | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tickling | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tickle | present · progressive | Tikki | my chin | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Teddy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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