The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 87

As Rikki-tikki went up the path, he heard his “attention” notes like a tiny dinner gong, and then the steady “Ding-dong-tock!

Who acts: Rikki tikki, tikki · What happens: go up, hear, note · To what, where: path, attention notes

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, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
2	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tikki	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Rikki	punct
4	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 notes	nmod:poss
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 attention	punct
14	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 notes	compound
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 attention	punct
16	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obj
17	like	like	ADP	_	21 gong	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gong	det
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gong	amod
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gong	compound
21	gong	gong	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 notes	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tock	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tock	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 tock	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tock	det
26	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tock	amod
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 dong	punct
28	Ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dong	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Ding	punct
30	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tock	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 dong	punct
32	tock	tock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Rikki tikki	the path		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient path=Extent
2	hear	past	tikki	tikki's attention notes	like a tiny dinner gong	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus
3	note		tikki		like a tiny dinner gong	nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl

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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