The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 93

He sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in; and Rikki-tikki’s mother (she used to live in the general’s house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men.

Who acts: Tikki, brought mongoose, mother · What happens: sit, bring up, hope, be, have, run about · To what, where: laps, house mongoose, rooms, mother, house, Rikki · 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, brought mongoose, mother), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 laps	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 laps	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 laps	nmod:poss
6	laps	lap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sat	advcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 other	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hopes	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 hopes	mark
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 mongoose	det
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 brought	advmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 well	punct
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 mongoose	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 up	punct
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 brought	compound:prt
19	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hopes	nsubj
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 hopes	advmod
21	hopes	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	26 mongoose	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 mongoose	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mongoose	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mongoose	compound
26	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hopes	ccomp
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hopes	obl:unmarked
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hopes	conj
31	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 have	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 run	mark
33	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 rooms	acl
34	about	about	ADV	_	35 in	advmod
35	in	in	ADV	_	33 run	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 told	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 told	cc
38	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 tikki	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 Rikki	punct
40	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mother	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 tikki	case
42	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 told	nsubj:pass
43	(	(	PUNCT	_	45 used	punct
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 used	nsubj
45	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 mother	acl:relcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 live	mark
47	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 used	xcomp
48	in	in	ADP	_	52 house	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 general	det
50	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 house	nmod:poss
51	’s	's	PART	_	50 general	case
52	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 live	obl
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 Segowlee	case
54	Segowlee	Segowlee	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 house	nmod
55	)	)	PUNCT	_	45 used	punct
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 told	aux
57	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	58 told	advmod
58	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
59	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 told	iobj
60	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	62 do	obj
61	to	to	PART	_	62 do	mark
62	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 told	xcomp
63	if	if	SCONJ	_	66 came	mark
64	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	66 came	advmod
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 came	nsubj
66	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 do	advcl
67	across	across	ADV	_	68 white	advmod
68	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 men	amod
69	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 came	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Tikki			shoulders's laps			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location
2	bring up	participle						well property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	hope	present	every brought mongoose				day	always property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		a house mongoose					tree rules
5	have	present	every brought mongoose not said here	rooms					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
6	run about	to-infinitive	every brought mongoose not said here	rooms not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	use	past	mother	Rikki tikki's mother not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Theme clause=Eventuality
8	live	to-infinitive	mother not said here			the general's house at Segowlee			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
9	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Rikki tikki's mother	Rikki			carefully property	tree rules
10	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rikki tikki's mother not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
11	come a condition, not said to happen	past	Tikki	white men			ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=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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