The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 28

Kotick’s fur was almost pure white now, and though he felt very proud of it, he only said, “Swim quickly!

Who acts: fur, Kotick · What happens: be, feel, say, swim · 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 (fur, 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	3 fur	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 Kotick	case
3	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 white	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 white	cop
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 white	advmod
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 white	amod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 white	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 felt	cc
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 felt	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 white	parataxis
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 proud	advmod
15	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 felt	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 proud	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 said	advmod
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 felt	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Swim	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Swim	punct
24	Swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
25	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 Swim	advmod
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kotick's fur	now	almost, white property	tree rules
2	feel	past	Kotick		proud property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: express	past	Kotick			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	swim in a quote	infinitive			quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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