The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 2
The clearing, as he remembered it, had grown in the night.
Who acts: clearing · What happens: remember, grow · To what, where: it
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clearing), 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 clearing | det |
| 2 | clearing | clearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 remembered | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 remembered | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 remembered | nsubj |
| 6 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clearing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 remembered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 clearing | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grown | aux |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grown | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | clearing | it | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · perfect | the clearing | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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