The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 99
When morning came he was very stiff, but well pleased with his doings.
Who acts: morning, tikki · What happens: come, be
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 (morning, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stiff | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stiff | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 stiff | advmod |
| 7 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleased | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 pleased | cc |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 doings | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 doings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pleased | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | tikki | stiff property | 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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