The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 1

“Rikki-tikki, I led Nagaina toward the house, and she has gone into the veranda, and--oh, come quickly--she means killing!”

Who acts: I, Nagaina · What happens: lead, go, come, mean, kill · To what, where: Rikki tikki, house, veranda · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 tikki	punct
2	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tikki	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Rikki	punct
4	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tikki	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 led	nsubj
7	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 led	obj
9	toward	toward	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 led	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 veranda	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 veranda	det
19	veranda	veranda	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
23	oh	oh	INTJ	_	25 come	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 oh	punct
25	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 led	conj
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 means	nsubj
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 come	parataxis
30	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 means	ccomp
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead in a quote	past	I	Rikki tikki	the house		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nagaina=Theme toward house=Destination
2	go in a quote	present · perfect	Nagaina		the veranda		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into veranda=Initial_Location
3	come in a quote	infinitive	I not said here			quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	mean in a quote	present	Nagaina				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	kill in a quote	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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