The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 115

Kotick did not care to hear any more about skinning just then; he had seen enough of it.

Who acts: Kotick · What happens: not care, hear, skin, see · To what, where: more

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 (Kotick), 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	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 care	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 care	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 care	advmod
4	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 care	xcomp
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 hear	obj
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 skinning	mark
10	skinning	skin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 more	advcl
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 then	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 skinning	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 care	conj
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 seen	advmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	Kotick				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hear	to-infinitive	Kotick not said here	more			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
3	skin	gerund	Kotick not said here		then		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	see	past · perfect	Kotick			of club; enough property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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