The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 8

They came into our lines while we were asleep.

Who acts: Things, we · What happens: come, be · To what, where: lines

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Things, we), 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	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 lines	case
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lines	nmod:poss
5	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 asleep	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Things = thing			our lines			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into line=Initial_Location
2	is	past	we					asleep property	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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