The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 3

Teddy and his mother and father were there at early breakfast, but Rikki-tikki saw that they were not eating anything.

Who acts: Teddy, Rikki tikki · What happens: be, see, not eat · To what, where: early breakfast, anything · 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 (Teddy, 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	Teddy	teddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Teddy	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 father	cc
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Teddy	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 breakfast	case
10	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breakfast	amod
11	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
14	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 tikki	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Rikki	punct
16	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 eating	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eating	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eating	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 eating	advmod
22	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 saw	ccomp
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 eating	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Teddy and tikki's mother and father		early breakfast	there property	tree rules
2	see	past	Rikki tikki				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not eat	past · progressive	Teddy	anything			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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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