The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 25

Teddy carried him off to bed, and insisted on Rikki-tikki sleeping under his chin.

Who acts: Teddy, Rikki tikki · What happens: carry off, insist, sleep · To what, where: Rikki, bed, Rikki tikki, chin

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 (Teddy, 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	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 carried	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 insisted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 insisted	cc
9	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 carried	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 tikki	case
11	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tikki	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Rikki	punct
13	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 insisted	obl
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 tikki	acl
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 chin	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 chin	nmod:poss
17	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeping	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	carry off	past	Teddy	Rikki	bed	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bed=Destination
2	insist speech: other	participle	Teddy not said here		Rikki tikki	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	gerund	Rikki tikki not said here		Rikki's chin	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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