The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 70

Still, the instant’s delay brought Rikki-tikki up to her, and as she plunged into the rat-hole where she and Nag used to live, his little white teeth were clenched on her tail, and he went down with her--and very few mongooses, however wise and old they may be, care to follow a cobra into its hole.

Who acts: delay, Nagaina, mongooses · What happens: bring up, plunge, use, live, clench, go down · To what, where: Rikki tikki, Nagaina, rat hole, little white teeth, tail, cobra

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 (delay, Nagaina, mongooses), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	7 brought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 instant	det
4	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 delay	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 instant	case
6	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	nsubj
7	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tikki	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Rikki	punct
10	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	7 brought	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 plunged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 plunged	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 plunged	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 plunged	nsubj
18	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 hole	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hole	det
21	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hole	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 rat	punct
23	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plunged	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 used	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Nag	cc
27	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 she	conj
28	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hole	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 live	mark
30	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 clenched	punct
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 teeth	nmod:poss
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 teeth	amod
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 teeth	amod
35	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 clenched	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 clenched	aux:pass
37	clenched	clench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 live	parataxis
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 tail	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 tail	nmod:poss
40	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 clenched	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 went	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 went	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 went	nsubj
44	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 plunged	conj
45	down	down	ADV	_	44 went	advmod
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 her	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 went	obl
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 wise	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 wise	cc
50	very	very	ADV	_	51 few	advmod
51	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 mongooses	amod
52	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 wise	nsubj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 wise	punct
54	however	however	ADV	_	55 wise	advmod
55	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brought	parataxis
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 old	cc
57	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 wise	conj
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 care	nsubj
59	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 care	aux
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	62 care	cop
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 care	punct
62	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 old	ccomp
63	to	to	PART	_	64 follow	mark
64	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 care	xcomp
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 cobra	det
66	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 follow	obj
67	into	into	ADP	_	69 hole	case
68	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 hole	nmod:poss
69	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 follow	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring up	past	the instant's delay	Rikki tikki	Nagaina		still		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tikki=Patient
2	plunge	past	Nagaina			the rat hole			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location
3	use	past	Nagaina						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	live	to-infinitive	Nagaina not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	clench	past · passive		delay's little white teeth		Nagaina's tail			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	go down	past	delay					with Nagaina; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	is	may	mongooses = mongoose					care property	tree rules
8	follow	to-infinitive	mongooses = mongoose not said here	a cobra		tail's hole			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cobra=Theme into hole=Trajectory

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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