The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 77

Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots.

Who acts: Rikki tikki, Tikki, piece · What happens: like, finish, go out, sit, fluff up, make · To what, where: piece, veranda, fur, sunshine

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rikki tikki, Tikki, piece), 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	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tikki	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rikki	punct
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj
6	immensely	immensely	ADV	_	4 liked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finished	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 finished	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 finished	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 finished	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 finished	aux:pass
12	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 liked	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	parataxis
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 veranda	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 veranda	det
18	veranda	veranda	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sat	cc
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sunshine	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sunshine	det
23	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fluffed	cc
25	fluffed	fluff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sat	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 fluffed	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fur	nmod:poss
28	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sat	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 make	obj
32	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 make	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 roots	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 roots	det
35	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dry	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	past	Rikki tikki	piece		immensely property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	finish	past · passive		piece			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	go out	past	Tikki		the veranda	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	Tikki not said here	Tikki's fur	the sunshine		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fur=Theme in sunshine=Location
5	fluff up	participle	Tikki not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	make	to-infinitive	Tikki not said here	piece			tree rules
7	dry	infinitive	piece not said here			to the roots	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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