The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 142

My tail’s all muddy, and he’ll have two hours’ hard work dressing me for parade.”

Who acts: tail, Dick, hard work · What happens: be, have, dress · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, Dick, hard work), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 muddy	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 muddy	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 muddy	advmod
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 have	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 muddy	parataxis
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hours	nummod
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 hours	punct
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 work	amod
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	parataxis
16	dressing	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 work	acl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 dressing	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 parade	case
19	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dressing	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 muddy	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 muddy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	My tail			all, muddy property	tree rules
2	have	future	Dick		hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	dress	gerund	hard work not said here	me		for parade	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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