The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 194

Trees had grown into and out of the walls; the battlements were tumbled down and decayed, and wild creepers hung out of the windows of the towers on the walls in bushy hanging clumps.

Who acts: Trees, wild creepers · What happens: grow, tumble down, decay, hang out · To what, where: walls, battlements, windows

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trees, wild creepers), 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	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grown	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	9 walls	case
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walls	cc
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 walls	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grown	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tumbled	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 battlements	det
12	battlements	battlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tumbled	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tumbled	aux:pass
14	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grown	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 tumbled	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 decayed	cc
17	decayed	decay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tumbled	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hung	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hung	cc
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 creepers	amod
21	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hung	nsubj
22	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 decayed	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 windows	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 windows	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 windows	det
26	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hung	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 towers	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 towers	det
29	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 windows	nmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 walls	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 walls	det
32	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 towers	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 clumps	case
34	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 clumps	amod
35	hanging	hanging	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 clumps	compound
36	clumps	clump	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 walls	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	Trees		into the walls result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into wall=Result
2	tumble down	past · passive		the battlements		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	decay	past				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	hang out	past	wild creepers	the windows of the towers on the walls in bushy hanging clumps		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient

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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