The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 23

And all that time he never set flipper on dry ground.

Who acts: Kotick · What happens: not set · To what, where: flipper, dry ground

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 set	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det:predet
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 set	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 set	advmod
7	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	flipper	flipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ground	amod
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not set	past	Kotick	flipper		dry ground	time		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Theme on ground=Destination

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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