The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 28
Rikki-tikki put his paws one on each side of the egg, and his eyes were blood-red.
Who acts: Rikki tikki, eyes · What happens: put, be · To what, where: paws, side
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, eyes), 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 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 paws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 paws | flat |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 egg | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 egg | det |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 red | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 red | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 red | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 red | cop |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 red | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 red | punct |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 put | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Rikki tikki | tikki's paws | each side of the egg | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | tikki's eyes | red property | 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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