The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 142
Nagaina lifted up her head and hissed, “You warned Rikki-tikki when I would have killed him.
Who acts: Nagaina, You · What happens: lift up, hiss, warn, kill · To what, where: head, Rikki tikki, I · 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 (Nagaina, You), 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 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hissed | cc |
| 7 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 warned | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 warned | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 warned | nsubj |
| 11 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 12 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tikki | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rikki | punct |
| 14 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warned | obj |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 killed | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 killed | aux |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 warned | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 killed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | Nagaina | Nagaina's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hiss | past | Nagaina not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn in a quote | past | You | Rikki tikki | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent tikki=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | would · perfect · passive | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |
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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