The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 158

At last there were only three eggs left, and Rikki-tikki began to chuckle to himself, when he heard Darzee’s wife screaming:

Who acts: three eggs, Rikki tikki, tikki, wife · What happens: be, leave, begin, chuckle, hear, scream · To what, where: three eggs, tikki, wife

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 (three eggs, Rikki tikki, tikki, wife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	advcl
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 three	advmod
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 eggs	nummod
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 eggs	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
11	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tikki	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Rikki	punct
13	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 chuckle	mark
16	chuckle	chuckle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 chuckle	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 heard	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
23	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 wife	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Darzee	case
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
26	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 wife	acl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	three eggs			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle		three eggs not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	Rikki tikki				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	chuckle	to-infinitive	Rikki tikki not said here		tikki		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
5	hear	past	tikki	Darzee's wife			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
6	scream speech: express	gerund	Darzee's wife not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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