The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 152
They had made a big half circle across the plain, and were spreading out into a line.
Who acts: troops · What happens: make, spread out · To what, where: big half circle, plain, line
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troops), 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 | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 circle | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 circle | amod |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 circle | compound |
| 7 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 plain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plain | det |
| 10 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 circle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spreading | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spreading | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spreading | aux |
| 14 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 spreading | compound:prt |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 line | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 line | det |
| 18 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spreading | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | troops | a big half circle | the plain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circle=Product | |||
| 2 | spread out | past · progressive | a line | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into line=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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