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title: From a little hill called Hutchinson’s Hill, you could look over thr… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From a little hill called Hutchinson’s Hill, you could look over three and a half miles of ground covered with fighting seals; and the surf was dotted all over with the heads of seals hurrying to land and begin their share of the fighting. Who acts: you, seals, miles. A sentence of «The Jungle Book»
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 118

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From a little hill called Hutchinson’s Hill, you could look over three and a half miles of ground covered with fighting seals; and the surf was dotted all over with the heads of seals hurrying to land and begin their share of the fighting.

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**Who acts:** you, seals, miles · **What happens:** call, look, cover, dot, hurry, land · **To what, where:** little hill, ground, surf, share, fighting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, seals, miles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:10:118
# text = From a little hill called Hutchinson’s Hill, you could look over three and a half miles of ground covered with fighting seals; and the surf was dotted all over with the heads of seals hurrying to land and begin their share of the fighting.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	Hutchinson	Hutchinson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	18	compound	_	_
18	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	dotted	dot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
38	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | a little hill *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | could | you |  |  |  |  | over three and half miles of ground; from a little hill | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hill=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | ground *not said here* |  |  |  | with fighting seals | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with seal=Theme |
| 4 | **dot** | past · passive |  | the surf |  |  |  | with the heads of seals; over *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with head=Theme |
| 5 | **hurry** | gerund | seals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **land** | to-infinitive | seals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **begin** | infinitive | seals *not said here* | miles's share of the fighting |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Eventuality |
| 8 | **share** |  | miles *= mile* | the fighting |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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.

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**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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