The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 108
“The valiant Rikki-tikki caught him by the head and held fast.
Who acts: valiant Rikki tikki · What happens: catch, hold · To what, where: Darzee
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valiant 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tikki | det |
| 3 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tikki | amod |
| 4 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tikki | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rikki | punct |
| 6 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 caught | conj |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 held | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch in a quote | past | the valiant Rikki tikki | Darzee | by the head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold in a quote | participle | the valiant Rikki tikki not said here | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «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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