The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 3

More trees stood in the middle of it, but the undergrowth and the jungle grass at the sides had been rolled back.

Who acts: More trees · What happens: stand, roll back · To what, where: middle, undergrowth

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 (More trees), 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 middle	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rolled	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 rolled	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 undergrowth	det
12	undergrowth	undergrowth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rolled	nsubj:pass
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grass	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grass	det
15	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grass	compound
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 undergrowth	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 sides	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sides	det
19	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 undergrowth	nmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rolled	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 rolled	aux:pass
22	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stood	parataxis
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 rolled	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	More trees			the middle of middle			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
2	roll back	past · perfect · passive		the undergrowth at the sides and the jungle grass					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent

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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