The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 114

May I be--skinned!” said Sea Vitch, and they all looked at Kotick as you can fancy a club full of drowsy old gentlemen would look at a little boy.

Who acts: Sea Vitch, gulls, you, club · What happens: skin, say, look, fancy · To what, where: I, Kotick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea Vitch, gulls, you, club), 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	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 skinned	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 skinned	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 skinned	aux:pass
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 skinned	punct
5	skinned	skin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 skinned	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 skinned	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Vitch	compound
10	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 looked	advmod
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 Kotick	case
17	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 fancy	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 fancy	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fancy	aux
21	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 looked	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 club	det
23	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 look	nsubj
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 club	amod
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 gentlemen	case
26	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gentlemen	amod
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gentlemen	amod
28	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 full	obl
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 look	aux
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fancy	parataxis
31	at	at	ADP	_	34 boy	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 boy	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 boy	amod
34	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 look	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	skin	may · passive		I			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Sea Vitch				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look in a quote	past	gulls = gull		Kotick		tree rules
4	fancy in a quote	can	you				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	look in a quote	would	a club			at a little boy	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=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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