The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 23
“Look at your eggs,” said Rikki-tikki, “in the melon bed near the wall.
Who acts: Rikki tikki · What happens: look, say · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 eggs | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tikki | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tikki | punct |
| 11 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bed | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bed | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bed | det |
| 16 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bed | compound |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tikki | conj |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 wall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wall | det |
| 20 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bed | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | at your eggs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at egg=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rikki tikki and the melon bed near the wall | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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