The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 39
Rikk-tck-tck!” chuckled Rikki-tikki.
Who acts: Rikk tck tck · What happens: chuckle · To what, where: Rikki
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 (Rikk tck tck), 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 | Rikk | Rikk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tck | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rikk | punct |
| 3 | tck | tck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tck | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 tck | punct |
| 5 | tck | tck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chuckled | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 tck | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tck | punct |
| 8 | chuckled | chuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chuckled | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tikki | punct |
| 11 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Rikki | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 chuckled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuckle in a quote | past | Rikk tck tck | Rikki | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rikki=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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