The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 92
Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy’s shoulder, and they gave him banana and some boiled egg.
Who acts: Rikki tikki, shoulders · What happens: come, give, boil · To what, where: early breakfast, banana, Tikki
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, shoulders), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tikki | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rikki | punct |
| 7 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 breakfast | case |
| 10 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 breakfast | amod |
| 11 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 riding | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 riding | det |
| 14 | veranda | veranda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riding | compound |
| 15 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breakfast | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 shoulder | case |
| 17 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Teddy | case |
| 19 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riding | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 egg | cc |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 egg | det |
| 28 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 egg | amod |
| 29 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 banana | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Rikki tikki | early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder | morning | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to breakfast=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | give | past | shoulders = shoulder | banana and some boiled egg | Tikki | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient banana=Theme | |||
| 3 | boil | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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