The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 98
Then Teddy’s mother came in with a very white face, and saw what was left of Nag, and Rikki-tikki dragged himself to Teddy’s bedroom and spent half the rest of the night shaking himself tenderly to find out whether he really was broken into forty pieces, as he fancied.
Who acts: mother, Rikki tikki, tikki · What happens: come in, see, leave, drag, spend, shake · To what, where: tikki, bedroom, rest, forty pieces · 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 (mother, Rikki tikki, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Teddy | case |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 white | advmod |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 left | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux:pass |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Nag | case |
| 19 | Nag | Nag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dragged | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dragged | cc |
| 22 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 tikki | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Rikki | punct |
| 24 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dragged | nsubj |
| 25 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 dragged | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 bedroom | case |
| 28 | Teddy | Teddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 bedroom | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Teddy | case |
| 30 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dragged | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 spent | cc |
| 32 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dragged | conj |
| 33 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 35 rest | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rest | det |
| 35 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spent | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 night | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 night | det |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rest | nmod |
| 39 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 spent | advcl |
| 40 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 shaking | obj |
| 41 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 shaking | xcomp |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 find | mark |
| 43 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 tenderly | xcomp |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 find | compound:prt |
| 45 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 49 broken | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 broken | nsubj |
| 47 | really | really | ADV | _ | 49 broken | advmod |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 broken | aux:pass |
| 49 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 find | advcl |
| 50 | into | into | ADP | _ | 52 pieces | case |
| 51 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 pieces | nummod |
| 52 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 broken | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 fancied | punct |
| 54 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 56 fancied | mark |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 fancied | nsubj |
| 56 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 broken | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | Teddy's mother | then | with a white face | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Teddy's mother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | of Nag | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of nag=Destination | |||||
| 4 | drag | past | Rikki tikki | tikki | Teddy's bedroom | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to bedroom=Destination | |||
| 5 | spend | past | Rikki tikki not said here | half rest of the night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset | ||||
| 6 | shake | gerund | Rikki tikki not said here | tikki | tenderly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 7 | find out | to-infinitive | Rikki tikki not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | break | past · passive | tikki | into forty pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=Result | ||||
| 9 | fancy | past | tikki | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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