The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 7

If Rikki-tikki had only known, he was doing a much more dangerous thing than fighting Nag, for Karait is so small, and can turn so quickly, that unless Rikki bit him close to the back of the head, he would get the return stroke in his eye or his lip.

Who acts: gait, Karait · What happens: know, do, fight, be, turn, bite · To what, where: Rikki tikki, dangerous thing, Nag, gait, return stroke, eye

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 (gait, Karait), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 known	mark
2	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tikki	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Rikki	punct
4	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 known	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 known	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 known	advmod
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 doing	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 doing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 known	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thing	det
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 dangerous	advmod
15	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doing	obj
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 fighting	mark
18	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 doing	advcl
19	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fighting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 small	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 small	mark
22	Karait	Karait	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 small	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 small	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 small	advmod
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 known	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 turn	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 turn	cc
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 turn	aux
29	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 small	parataxis
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 quickly	advmod
31	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	29 turn	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bit	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 bit	mark
34	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	35 Rikki	case
35	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 bit	obl
36	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 turn	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bit	obj
38	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bit	xcomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 back	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 back	det
41	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 close	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 head	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 head	det
44	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 back	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 get	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 get	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 get	aux
48	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 turn	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 stroke	det
50	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 stroke	compound
51	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obj
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 eye	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 eye	nmod:poss
54	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obl
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	57 lip	cc
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 lip	nmod:poss
57	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 eye	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past · perfect · passive		Rikki tikki			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	do	past · progressive	gait	a dangerous thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	fight	gerund	gait not said here	Nag			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nag=Co-Agent
4	is	present	Karait			small property	tree rules
5	turn	can				quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	bite	past		gait		unless Rikki; close property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	get	would	gait	the return stroke	gait's eye or gait's lip		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stroke=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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