The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 12, sentence 38

They were between twenty and thirty feet long, and they had no hind flippers, but a shovel-like tail that looked as if it had been whittled out of wet leather.

Who acts: People, like tail · What happens: be, have, look, whittle · To what, where: hind flippers, tail, wet leather

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, like tail), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 long	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 long	cop
3	between	between	ADP	_	7 feet	case
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 feet	nummod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thirty	cc
6	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 twenty	conj
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 long	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 flippers	det
14	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flippers	amod
15	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tail	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 tail	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tail	det
19	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 like	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 shovel	punct
21	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tail	amod
22	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 looked	nsubj
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tail	acl:relcl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 whittled	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 whittled	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 whittled	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 whittled	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 whittled	aux:pass
30	whittled	whittle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 looked	advcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 leather	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 leather	case
33	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 leather	amod
34	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 whittled	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	People			between twenty feet; long property	tree rules
2	have	past	People	no hind flippers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Patient
3	look	past	a like tail				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	whittle	past · perfect · passive		tail	wet leather		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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