The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 153
That line grew and grew and grew till it was three-quarters of a mile long from wing to wing--one solid wall of men, horses, and guns.
Who acts: line, circle · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: guns, three quarters
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 (line, circle), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 line | det |
| 2 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grew | cc |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grew | cc |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 quarters | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 quarters | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 quarters | cop |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 quarters | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 three | punct |
| 13 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mile | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mile | det |
| 16 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quarters | nmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 quarters | amod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 wing | case |
| 19 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 long | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 wing | case |
| 21 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wing | nmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 wall | punct |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 wall | nummod |
| 24 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wall | amod |
| 25 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quarters | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wall | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 horses | punct |
| 29 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 men | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 guns | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 guns | cc |
| 32 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | that line | guns | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | that line not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | that line not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | circle | three quarters and one solid wall of men and horses | of a mile | 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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