The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 116

“If I could get up to your nest, I’d roll your babies out!” said Rikki-tikki.

Who acts: Rikki · What happens: get up, have, roll out, say · To what, where: babies · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rikki), 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	_	5 get	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 get	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 nest	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nest	nmod:poss
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ’d	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ’d	nsubj
12	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	advcl
13	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ’d	xcomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 babies	nmod:poss
15	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 roll	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	13 roll	compound:prt
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 tikki	punct
22	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Rikki	appos
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get up a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	Rikki		to your nest result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to nest=Result
2	have in a quote	past	Rikki			tree rules
3	roll out in a quote	infinitive	Rikki not said here	your babies		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Agent
4	say speech: express	past	Rikki			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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