The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 68
Angry as he was, Rikki-tikki was very frightened as he saw the size of the big cobra.
Who acts: tikki, Angry Rikki tikki · What happens: be, see · To what, where: size
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 (tikki, Angry 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 | Angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tikki | amod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Angry | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Angry | punct |
| 6 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tikki | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rikki | punct |
| 8 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 frightened | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 frightened | advmod |
| 11 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 size | det |
| 16 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cobra | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cobra | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cobra | amod |
| 20 | cobra | cobra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 size | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | tikki | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Angry Rikki tikki | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | tikki | the size of the big cobra | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer size=Stimulus |
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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