The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 78
There was no answer from outside, so Rikki-tikki knew Nagaina had gone away.
Who acts: answer, Rikki tikki, Nagaina · What happens: be, know, go away · 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 (answer, Rikki tikki, Nagaina), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 outside | case |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 knew | advmod |
| 9 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tikki | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rikki | punct |
| 11 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 13 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 gone | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no answer | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Rikki tikki | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go away | past · perfect | Nagaina | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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