The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 67

Rikki-tikki tingled all over with rage and hatred at this, and then Nag’s head came through the sluice, and his five feet of cold body followed it.

Who acts: Rikki tikki, five feet · What happens: tingle, come, follow · To what, where: Rikki tikki, sluice, head

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 tikki, five feet), 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	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tikki	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tikki	punct
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
4	tingled	tingle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tikki	acl
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	4 tingled	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 rage	case
8	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tingled	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hatred	cc
10	hatred	hatred	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rage	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 this	case
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 rage	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 came	advmod
16	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 head	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Nag	case
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 sluice	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sluice	det
22	sluice	sluice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 feet	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 feet	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
26	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 feet	nummod
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 followed	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 body	case
29	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 body	amod
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feet	nmod
31	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 followed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tingle	participle		Rikki tikki not said here			with rage at this and hatred; over property	vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	come	past	Rikki tikki		the sluice	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through sluice=Initial_Location
3	follow	past	tikki's five feet of cold body	head				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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