The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 71

It was dark in the hole; and Rikki-tikki never knew when it might open out and give Nagaina room to turn and strike at him.

Who acts: hole, Rikki tikki · What happens: be, not know, open out, give, turn, strike · To what, where: hole, Nagaina room · 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 (hole, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hole	det
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dark	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knew	cc
9	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tikki	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Rikki	punct
11	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 knew	advmod
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	conj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 open	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 open	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 open	aux
17	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knew	ccomp
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 open	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 open	conj
21	Nagaina	Nagaina	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 room	compound
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 turn	mark
24	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 strike	cc
26	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 turn	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 strike	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	hole		the hole	dark property	tree rules
2	not know	past	Rikki tikki				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	open out	might	hole				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	infinitive	hole not said here	Nagaina room			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
5	turn	to-infinitive	hole not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	strike	infinitive	hole not said here			at tikki	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=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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