The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 57
Rikki-tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keeping just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like hot coals.
Who acts: Rikki tikki, Nagaina · What happens: bound, keep, stroke · To what, where: reach
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, Nagaina), 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 | 5 bounding | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bounding | aux |
| 5 | bounding | bound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 bounding | advmod |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 Nagaina | case |
| 8 | Nagaina | Nagaina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bounding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keeping | punct |
| 10 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bounding | conj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 reach | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 reach | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 reach | case |
| 14 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeping | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stroke | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stroke | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eyes | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keeping | obj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 coals | case |
| 23 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coals | amod |
| 24 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 eyes | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bounding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | past · progressive | Rikki tikki | round Nagaina; all property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round nagaina=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | Rikki tikki not said here | reach of Nagaina's stroke | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent reach=Theme eye=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | stroke | Nagaina | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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