The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 131
“Rikki-tikki, you are not going to eat her eggs?”
Who acts: Rikki tikki · What happens: not go, eat · To what, where: eggs
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 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 | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 2 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tikki | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rikki | punct |
| 4 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tikki | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 going | advmod |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eat | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | Rikki tikki | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | Rikki tikki not said here | end's eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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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