--- title: The distance to the killing-grounds was only half a mile, but it too… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: The distance to the killing-grounds was only half a mile, but it took an hour to cover, because if the seals went too fast Kerick knew that they would get heated and then their fur would come off in patches when they were skinned. Who acts: distance, it, seals, Kerick. A sentence of «The Jungle Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/74/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / [The Jungle Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/) / 74 # The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 11, sentence 74 The distance to the killing-grounds was only half a mile, but it took an hour to cover, because if the seals went too fast Kerick knew that they would get heated and then their fur would come off in patches when they were skinned. **Who acts:** distance, it, seals, Kerick, fur · **What happens:** be, take, cover, go, know, heat · **To what, where:** mile, Kerick, patches · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distance, it, seals, Kerick), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:11:74 # text = The distance to the killing-grounds was only half a mile, but it took an hour to cover, because if the seals went too fast Kerick knew that they would get heated and then their fur would come off in patches when they were skinned. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 killing killing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 grounds grounds NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 nmod _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 12 det:predet _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 29 Kerick Kerick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 heated heat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 42 off off ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 45 when when SCONJ WRB _ 48 mark _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 skinned skinned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the distance to the killing grounds | half mile | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | past | it | | | | hour | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cover** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | the seals | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **know** | past | Kerick | | | | | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **heat** | would · passive | | Kerick | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **come off** | would | Kerick's fur | | | patches | then | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in patch=Location | | 8 | **is** | past | seals *= seal* | | | | | skinned *property* | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/75/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/11/)