The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 17, sentence 79

But it grew and grew, and Kala Nag lifted up one forefoot and then the other, and brought them down on the ground--one-two, one-two, as steadily as trip-hammers.

Who acts: dew, Kala · What happens: grow, lift up, bring down · To what, where: one forefoot, trees, ground

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dew, Kala), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 grew	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grew	cc
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lifted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lifted	cc
8	Kala	Kala	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lifted	nsubj
9	Nag	Nag	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Kala	flat
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 lifted	compound:prt
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 forefoot	nummod
13	forefoot	forefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifted	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 other	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 other	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lifted	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brought	cc
20	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	obj
22	down	down	ADP	_	20 brought	compound:prt
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 ground	appos
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 two	punct
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 one	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 one	conj
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 two	punct
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 one	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 steadily	punct
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 steadily	advmod
36	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	3 grew	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	40 hammers	case
38	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hammers	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 trip	punct
40	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 steadily	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	dew			steadily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	dew not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lift up	past	Kala	one forefoot			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forefoot=Theme
4	bring down	past	dew not said here	trees = tree	the ground		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on ground=Destination

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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