The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 80

Ten minutes later little Kotick did not recognize his friends any more, for their skins were ripped off from the nose to the hind flippers, whipped off and thrown down on the ground in a pile.

Who acts: Ten minutes · What happens: not recognize, rip off, whip off, throw down · To what, where: friends, skins, nose, hind flippers, 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 (Ten minutes), 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	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 recognize	nsubj
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Kotick	amod
5	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 minutes	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 recognize	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 recognize	advmod
8	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 recognize	obj
11	any	any	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 recognize	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ripped	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 ripped	mark
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 skins	nmod:poss
16	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ripped	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ripped	aux:pass
18	ripped	rip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 recognize	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 ripped	compound:prt
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 nose	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nose	det
22	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ripped	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 flippers	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 flippers	det
25	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flippers	amod
26	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ripped	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 whipped	punct
28	whipped	whip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 flippers	acl
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 whipped	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thrown	cc
31	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 whipped	conj
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 thrown	compound:prt
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 ground	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ground	det
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thrown	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 pile	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pile	det
38	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thrown	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 recognize	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not recognize	past · do-support	Ten minutes little Kotick	Kotick's friends			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
2	rip off	past · passive		Kerick's skins	the nose	to the hind flippers result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to flipper=Result
3	whip off	participle		the hind flippers not said here			vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	throw down	participle			the ground	in a pile	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent 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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