The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 95
Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump, for the mongooses are light sleepers.
Who acts: Rikki tikki, mongooses · What happens: wake up, be
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, 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 | Rikki | Rikki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tikki | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rikki | punct |
| 3 | tikki | tikki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 woke | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 jump | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jump | det |
| 8 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleepers | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sleepers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mongooses | det |
| 12 | mongooses | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sleepers | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sleepers | cop |
| 14 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sleepers | amod |
| 15 | sleepers | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 woke | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | Rikki tikki | with a jump | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with jump=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the mongooses | for light sleepers | tree rules |
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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