The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 35

Rikki-tikki saw Teddy’s father shoot out a big hand, catch Teddy by the shoulder, and drag him across the little table with the tea-cups, safe and out of reach of Nagaina.

Who acts: Rikki tikki, father · What happens: see, shoot out, catch, drag · To what, where: big hand, Teddy, father, little table · 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, father), 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 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Teddy	case
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	nsubj
8	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	ccomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 shoot	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hand	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hand	amod
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 catch	punct
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shoot	conj
15	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 catch	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 shoulder	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shoulder	det
18	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 catch	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drag	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drag	cc
21	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 shoot	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 drag	obj
23	across	across	ADP	_	26 table	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 table	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 table	amod
26	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drag	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 cups	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cups	det
29	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cups	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 tea	punct
31	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 table	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 safe	punct
33	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cups	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 reach	cc
35	out	out	ADP	_	37 reach	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 reach	case
37	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 safe	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Nagaina	case
39	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 reach	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Rikki tikki				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	shoot out	infinitive	Teddy's father	a big hand			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	catch	infinitive	Teddy's father not said here	Teddy		by the shoulder	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teddy=Theme
4	drag	infinitive		father	the little table with the tea cups		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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