The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 24

But he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant to be patted and petted by Teddy’s mother, and to sit on Teddy’s shoulder, his eyes would get red from time to time, and he would go off into his long war cry of “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!”

Who acts: Rikki, thing, eyes, tikki tchk · What happens: remember, be, pat, pet, sit, get · To what, where: Nag, shoulder, long war cry

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, thing, eyes, tikki tchk), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 remembered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remembered	nsubj
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 remembered	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Nagaina	cc
6	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nag	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pleasant	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pleasant	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 pleasant	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pleasant	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pleasant	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 pleasant	advmod
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remembered	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	16 patted	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 patted	aux:pass
16	patted	pat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 pleasant	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 petted	cc
18	petted	pet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 patted	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 mother	case
20	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 mother	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Teddy	case
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 petted	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sit	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sit	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sit	mark
26	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 shoulder	case
28	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 shoulder	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 Teddy	case
30	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sit	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eyes	nmod:poss
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 get	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sit	conj
36	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 get	xcomp
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 time	case
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 time	case
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 go	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 go	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 go	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 go	aux
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remembered	parataxis
46	off	off	ADP	_	45 go	compound:prt
47	into	into	ADP	_	51 cry	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 cry	nmod:poss
49	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 cry	amod
50	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 cry	compound
51	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	62 tchk	case
53	“	"	PUNCT	_	62 tchk	punct
54	Rikk	Rikk	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 tchk	nsubj
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 Rikk	punct
56	tikk	tikk	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 Rikk	appos
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 tikk	punct
58	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 Rikk	appos
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 tikki	punct
60	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 tchk	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 tikki	punct
62	tchk	tchk	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 cry	nmod
63	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 go	punct
64	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Rikki	Nag and Nagaina				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nag=Theme
2	is	past	thing				pleasant property	tree rules
3	pat	to-infinitive · passive	thing not said here					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»
4	pet	participle	thing not said here				by Teddy's mother	vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sit	to-infinitive			Teddy's shoulder			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
6	get	would	Rikki's eyes			time	red property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	go off	would	Rikki		Rikki's long war cry of tikki tchk			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
8	cry		tikki tchk					nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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