The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 112

When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight, if anyone had been bold enough to weigh him, was nearly seven hundred pounds.

Who acts: Catch, anyone · What happens: heave up, stand, be, weigh · To what, where: Catch, front flippers, weight, hundred pounds

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catch, anyone), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heaved	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heaved	nsubj
3	heaved	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	advcl
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 heaved	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 heaved	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 flippers	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 flippers	nmod:poss
8	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flippers	amod
9	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heaved	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	14 four	advmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	12 more	fixed
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 feet	nummod
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 clear	obl:unmarked
16	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stood	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clear	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 weight	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 weight	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 weight	nmod:poss
23	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bold	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 bold	mark
26	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 bold	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bold	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 bold	cop
29	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stood	parataxis
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 bold	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 weigh	mark
32	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bold	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 weigh	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pounds	punct
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 pounds	cop
36	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	38 hundred	advmod
37	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hundred	compound
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 pounds	nummod
39	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	heave up	past	Catch	Catch	Catch's front flippers		vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	stand	past	Catch	Catch's weight			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	anyone			bold, enough property	tree rules
4	weigh	to-infinitive	anyone not said here	Catch			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value
5	is a	past		hundred pounds			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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