The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 83
At nightfall he ran into Teddy’s nursery to watch how kerosene lamps were lighted, and when Teddy went to bed Rikki-tikki climbed up too.
Who acts: Tikki, Teddy, Rikki tikki · What happens: run, watch, light, go, climb up · To what, where: nightfall, kerosene lamps, bed
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, Rikki 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 nightfall | case |
| 2 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 nursery | case |
| 6 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nursery | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Teddy | case |
| 8 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 watch | mark |
| 10 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | advcl |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 lighted | advmod |
| 12 | kerosene | kerosene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lamps | compound |
| 13 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lighted | aux:pass |
| 15 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 watch | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 went | advmod |
| 19 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 23 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 tikki | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Rikki | punct |
| 25 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 climbed | nsubj |
| 26 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 climbed | compound:prt |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 climbed | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Tikki | nightfall | into Teddy's nursery result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into nursery=Result | |||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | Tikki not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | light | past · passive | kerosene lamps | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Teddy | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | climb up | past | Rikki tikki | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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