--- title: Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot (when a mongoose’s eye… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot (when a mongoose’s eyes grow red, he is angry), and he sat back on his tail and hind legs like a little kangaroo, and looked all round him, and chattered with rage. Who acts: Rikki tikki, eyes, Tikki. 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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, eyes, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:13:133 # text = Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot (when a mongoose’s eyes grow red, he is angry), and he sat back on his tail and hind legs like a little kangaroo, and looked all round him, and chattered with rage. 1 Rikki Rikki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 tikki tikki NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mongoose mongoose NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 35 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 42 all all ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 round round ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 chattered chatter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | Rikki tikki | Tikki's eyes | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | Tikki's eyes *not said here* | | | | | red *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | a mongoose's eyes | | | | | red *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | Tikki | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sit back** | past | Tikki | | | Tikki's tail and hind legs like a little kangaroo | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tail=Location | | 6 | **look** | past | Tikki *not said here* | | | | | round Tikki | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme | | 7 | **chatter** | past | Tikki *not said here* | | | | | with rage | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rage=Co-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. - ← previous: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/134/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/13/)