--- title: But he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant t… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: But he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant to be patted and petted by Teddy’s mother, and to sit on Teddy’s shoulder, his eyes would get red from time to time, and he would go off into his long war cry of “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!” Who acts: Rikki, thing, eyes, tikki tchk. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/14/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/14/) / 24 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 24 But he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant to be patted and petted by Teddy’s mother, and to sit on Teddy’s shoulder, his eyes would get red from time to time, and he would go off into his long war cry of “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!” **Who acts:** Rikki, thing, eyes, tikki tchk · **What happens:** remember, be, pat, pet, sit, get · **To what, where:** Nag, shoulder, long war cry This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rikki, thing, eyes, tikki tchk), 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:pg236:14:24 # text = But he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant to be patted and petted by Teddy’s mother, and to sit on Teddy’s shoulder, his eyes would get red from time to time, and he would go off into his long war cry of “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Nag Nag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Nagaina Nagaina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 though though SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 patted pat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 petted pet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 Teddy Teddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’s 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 Teddy Teddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 36 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 46 off off ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 into into ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 49 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 50 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 53 “ " PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 Rikk Rikk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 tikk tikk NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 57 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 tikki tikki NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 tikki tikki NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 61 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 60 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 tchk tchk NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ! ! PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | past | Rikki | Nag and Nagaina | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nag=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | thing | | | | | pleasant *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pat** | to-infinitive · passive | thing *not said here* | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **pet** | participle | thing *not said here* | | | | | by Teddy's mother | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sit** | to-infinitive | | | | Teddy's shoulder | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location | | 6 | **get** | would | Rikki's eyes | | | | time | red *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **go off** | would | Rikki | | | Rikki's long war cry of tikki tchk | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **cry** | | tikki tchk | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/14/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/14/25/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/14/)