--- title: “Well,” said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, “mar… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Well,” said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, “marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?” Who acts: Rikki tikki, tail, you, it. 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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, tail, you, it), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:13:116 # text = “Well,” said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, “marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Rikki Rikki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 tikki tikki NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 fluff fluff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 35 fledglings fledgling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 out out ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rikki tikki | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **begin** | past | Tikki's tail | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **fluff up** | to-infinitive | Tikki's tail *not said here* | marks or no marks | | | again | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you | fledglings | | a nest | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fledgling=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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/117/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/)