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

And Rikki-tikki heard a scream from Teddy’s mother.

Who acts: Rikki tikki · What happens: hear · To what, where: scream

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 heard	cc
2	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tikki	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Rikki	punct
4	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scream	det
7	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 mother	case
9	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mother	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Teddy	case
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Rikki tikki	a scream				from Teddy's mother	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent scream=Topic from mother=Source

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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