The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 156

“I was not a day too soon,” he said, for he could see the baby cobras curled up inside the skin, and he knew that the minute they were hatched they could each kill a man or a mongoose.

Who acts: tikki, eggs · What happens: not be, say, see, curl up, know, hatch · To what, where: day, baby cobras, skin, minute, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tikki, eggs), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 day	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 day	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl:unmarked
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 day	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 see	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cobras	det
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cobras	compound
20	cobras	cobra	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	obj
21	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cobras	acl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 curled	compound:prt
23	inside	inside	ADP	_	25 skin	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 skin	det
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 curled	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knew	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 knew	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 knew	nsubj
29	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 hatched	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 minute	det
32	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hatched	nsubj:pass
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hatched	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hatched	aux:pass
35	hatched	hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 knew	ccomp
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 kill	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 kill	aux
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	39 kill	advmod
39	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 hatched	ccomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 man	det
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 kill	obj
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 mongoose	cc
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 mongoose	det
44	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 man	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	past	tikki	a day		soon property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	tikki				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	could	tikki	the baby cobras			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cobra=Stimulus
4	curl up	participle		the baby cobras not said here	the skin		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
5	know	past	tikki				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	hatch	past · passive		the minute			tree rules
7	kill	could	eggs = egg	a man or a mongoose			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme

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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