The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 74

The distance to the killing-grounds was only half a mile, but it took an hour to cover, because if the seals went too fast Kerick knew that they would get heated and then their fur would come off in patches when they were skinned.

Who acts: distance, it, seals, Kerick, fur · What happens: be, take, cover, go, know, heat · To what, where: mile, Kerick, patches · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (distance, it, seals, Kerick), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 distance	det
2	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mile	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 grounds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grounds	det
5	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grounds	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 killing	punct
7	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 distance	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mile	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 mile	advmod
10	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	12 mile	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mile	det
12	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mile	parataxis
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hour	det
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cover	mark
20	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 took	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 went	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 went	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 seals	det
25	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cover	conj
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 fast	advmod
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 knew	advmod
29	Kerick	Kerick	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 went	advcl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 heated	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heated	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 heated	aux
34	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 heated	aux:pass
35	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 knew	ccomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 come	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 come	advmod
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 fur	nmod:poss
39	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 come	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 come	aux
41	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 heated	conj
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 come	compound:prt
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 patches	case
44	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 come	obl
45	when	when	SCONJ	_	48 skinned	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 skinned	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 skinned	cop
48	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 heated	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 mile	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the distance to the killing grounds	half mile				tree rules
2	take	past	it			hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cover	to-infinitive						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	the seals					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	past	Kerick				fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	heat	would · passive		Kerick				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
7	come off	would	Kerick's fur		patches	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in patch=Location
8	is	past	seals = seal				skinned 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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