The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 2

Rikki-tikki smashed two eggs, and tumbled backward down the melon-bed with the third egg in his mouth, and scuttled to the veranda as hard as he could put foot to the ground.

Who acts: Rikki tikki, tikki · What happens: smash, tumble, scuttle, put · To what, where: two eggs, melon bed, veranda, foot

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 (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	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tikki	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rikki	punct
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smashed	nsubj
4	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eggs	nummod
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smashed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tumbled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tumbled	cc
9	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smashed	conj
10	backward	backward	ADV	_	9 tumbled	advmod
11	down	down	ADP	_	15 bed	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bed	det
13	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bed	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 melon	punct
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tumbled	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 egg	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 egg	det
18	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 egg	amod
19	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tumbled	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mouth	nmod:poss
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 egg	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 scuttled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 scuttled	cc
25	scuttled	scuttle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 smashed	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 veranda	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 veranda	det
28	veranda	veranda	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 scuttled	obl
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 hard	advmod
30	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 put	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 put	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 put	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 put	aux
34	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 scuttled	advcl
35	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 ground	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ground	det
38	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smash	past	Rikki tikki	two eggs			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
2	tumble	past	Rikki tikki not said here		the melon bed	with the third egg in tikki's mouth; backward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down bed=Initial_Location
3	scuttle	participle	Rikki tikki not said here		the veranda		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to veranda=Destination
4	put	could	tikki	foot		to the ground; hard property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal

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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