The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 79
Rikki-tikki shook some of the dust out of his fur and sneezed.
Who acts: Rikki tikki · What happens: shake, sneeze · To what, where: some, fur
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), 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 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 shook | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dust | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dust | det |
| 8 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 some | nmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 fur | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fur | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fur | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sneezed | cc |
| 14 | sneezed | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Rikki tikki | some | tikki's fur | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent some=Theme out fur=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sneeze | past | Rikki tikki not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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