The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 14, sentence 20

Rikki-tikki was rather amused at all the fuss, which, of course, he did not understand.

Who acts: Rikki tikki, fuss · What happens: be, not understand · To what, where: fuss

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 14. 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, fuss), 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	6 amused	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amused	cop
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 amused	advmod
6	amused	amused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 fuss	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 fuss	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fuss	det
10	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 amused	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 understand	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 understand	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 understand	punct
14	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	20 understand	advmod
15	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 of	fixed
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 of	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 understand	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 understand	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 understand	advmod
20	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fuss	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rikki tikki			all fuss		amused property	tree rules
2	not understand	past · do-support	all fuss						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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