The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 4, sentence 135

Had they been alone they could have gone twice as fast, but the boy’s weight held them back.

Who acts: Feet, weight · What happens: have, be, go, hold back · To what, where: Feet

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Feet, weight), 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	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Had	obj
3	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gone	advcl
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 been	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Had	conj
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 fast	advmod
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 fast	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 gone	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 held	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 held	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 weight	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 boy	case
17	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 held	nsubj
18	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Had	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 held	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 held	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past		Feet = foot		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	be	participle	Feet = foot not said here		alone property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	could · perfect	Feet = foot		fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hold back	past	the boy's weight	Feet = foot		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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