The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 18, sentence 6

The elephants had stamped out more room--had stamped the thick grass and juicy cane to trash, the trash into slivers, the slivers into tiny fibers, and the fibers into hard earth.

What happens: stamp out, stamp, trash · To what, where: elephants, thick grass, slivers

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: 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 elephants	det
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stamped	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stamped	aux
4	stamped	stamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 stamped	compound:prt
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stamped	obj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 stamped	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stamped	aux
10	stamped	stamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stamped	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grass	det
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grass	amod
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stamped	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cane	cc
15	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cane	amod
16	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grass	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 trash	mark
18	trash	trash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cane	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trash	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trash	det
21	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grass	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 slivers	case
23	slivers	sliver	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stamped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slivers	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 slivers	det
26	slivers	sliver	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 slivers	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 fibers	case
28	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fibers	amod
29	fibers	fiber	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 slivers	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fibers	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fibers	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fibers	det
33	fibers	fiber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stamped	obl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 earth	case
35	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 earth	amod
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fibers	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stamped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stamp out	past · perfect · passive	the elephants		the fibers into hard earth obl	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme room=Result
2	stamp	past · perfect	the thick grass and juicy cane and the trash	slivers and the slivers into tiny fibers		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent grass=Theme into sliver=Destination
3	trash	to-infinitive				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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