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title: Rikki-tikki curled himself up in the grass and slept where he was--s… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 15, with its dependency tr
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 15, sentence 83

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg236:15:83
# text = 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.
1	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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