The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 81
Nag was asleep, and Rikki-tikki looked at his big back, wondering which would be the best place for a good hold.
Who acts: Nag, Rikki tikki · What happens: be, look, wonder · To what, where: best place · 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 (Nag, 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 | Nag | nag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asleep | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asleep | cop |
| 3 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 6 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tikki | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rikki | punct |
| 8 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asleep | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 back | amod |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wondering | punct |
| 15 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 place | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 place | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 place | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 place | amod |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wondering | ccomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 hold | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hold | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hold | amod |
| 25 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nag | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Rikki tikki | at tikki's big back | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at back=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | would | the best place | for a good hold | tree rules |
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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