The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 83

Rikki-tikki curled himself up in the grass and slept where he was--slept and slept till it was late in the afternoon, for he had done a hard day’s work.

Who acts: Rikki tikki, tikki, grass, hard day · What happens: curl up, sleep, be, do, work · To what, where: tikki, grass, work

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15. 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, tikki, grass, hard day), 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	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tikki	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rikki	punct
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curled	nsubj
4	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 curled	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 curled	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 curled	conj
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 slept	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slept	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 slept	cop
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 slept	punct
16	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slept	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 slept	cc
18	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slept	conj
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 late	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 late	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 late	cop
22	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 slept	ccomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 afternoon	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 afternoon	det
25	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 late	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 done	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 done	case
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 done	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 done	aux
30	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 slept	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 day	det
32	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 work	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 day	case
35	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 done	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 curled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	participle	Rikki tikki	tikki	the grass			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	sleep	past	Rikki tikki not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	tikki				sleep property	tree rules
4	sleep	past	Rikki tikki not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	grass			afternoon	late property	tree rules
6	do	past · perfect	tikki	a hard day's work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
7	work		a hard day					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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.

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