The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 32
“Do you think a snake-killer kills muskrats?” said Rikki-tikki scornfully.
Who acts: you, snake killer, Rikki tikki · What happens: think, kill, say · To what, where: muskrats · 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 (you, snake killer, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 killer | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killer | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 snake | punct |
| 8 | killer | killer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kills | nsubj |
| 9 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 10 | muskrats | muskrat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kills | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tikki | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tikki | punct |
| 16 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 16 tikki | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present | a snake killer | muskrats | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muskrat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Rikki tikki | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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