The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 70

Rikki-tikki looked down between the boy’s collar and neck, snuffed at his ear, and climbed down to the floor, where he sat rubbing his nose.

Who acts: Rikki tikki, Tikki · What happens: look down, snuff, climb down, sit, rub · To what, where: collar, ear, floor, nose

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 (Rikki tikki, 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	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tikki	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rikki	punct
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	between	between	ADP	_	10 collar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 collar	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 boy	case
10	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 neck	cc
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 collar	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 snuffed	punct
14	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 collar	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 ear	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ear	nmod:poss
17	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 snuffed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 climbed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 climbed	cc
20	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	parataxis
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 climbed	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 floor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floor	det
24	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 climbed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 sat	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 climbed	conj
29	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 sat	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nose	nmod:poss
31	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rubbing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look down	past	Rikki tikki			between the boy's collar and neck; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent between collar=Theme
2	snuff	participle		the boy's collar and neck not said here	Tikki's ear		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	climb down	past			the floor	down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to floor=Destination
4	sit	past	Tikki				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rub	gerund	Tikki not said here	Tikki's nose			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nose=Theme

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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