The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 82

He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar, for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done.

Who acts: Tikki, writing · What happens: drown, put, burn, climb up, see, be · To what, where: Tikki, bath tubs, nose, ink, end, lap · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tikki, writing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drowned	nsubj
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 drowned	advmod
3	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 drowned	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 tubs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tubs	det
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tubs	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bath	punct
9	tubs	tub	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drowned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drowned	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nose	nmod:poss
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 ink	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ink	det
16	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 table	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 table	det
19	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 table	compound
20	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 burned	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 burned	cc
23	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drowned	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 burned	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 end	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 burned	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	33 cigar	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cigar	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 man	case
33	cigar	cigar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 end	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 climbed	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 climbed	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 climbed	nsubj
37	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 burned	parataxis
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 climbed	compound:prt
39	in	in	ADP	_	44 lap	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 man	det
41	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 man	amod
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lap	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 man	case
44	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 climbed	obl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 see	mark
46	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 climbed	advcl
47	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	50 done	advmod
48	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 done	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 done	cop
50	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 see	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drowned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	Tikki	Tikki	the bath tubs		nearly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	put	infinitive	Tikki not said here	Tikki's nose	the ink		on a writing table	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme on table=Destination
3	burn	past	Tikki not said here	nose		on the end of the big man's cigar		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	climb up	past	Tikki		the big man's lap			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lap=Trajectory
5	see	to-infinitive	Tikki not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	writing				done property	tree rules

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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