--- title: It was Things like trees, and they fell up and down the lines and bu… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was Things like trees, and they fell up and down the lines and bubbled; and my head-rope broke, and I couldn’t find my driver, and I couldn’t find you, Billy, so I ran off with--with these gentlemen.” Who acts: harness, trees, head rope, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harness, trees, head rope, I), 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:pg236:19:22 # text = It was Things like trees, and they fell up and down the lines and bubbled; and my head-rope broke, and I couldn’t find my driver, and I couldn’t find you, Billy, so I ran off with--with these gentlemen.” 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 Things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 up up ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 down down ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 bubbled bubble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 20 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 28 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 36 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Billy Billy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 45 off off ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 50 det _ _ 50 gentlemen gentleman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | harness | Things | | | | like trees | tree rules | | 2 | **fall up** | past | trees *= tree* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bubble** | past | trees *= tree* *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 4 | **break** | past | my head rope | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **find** | could | I | my driver | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Topic | | 6 | **not** **find** | could | I | you | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme billy=Attribute | | 7 | **run off** | past | I | | | | | with this gentlemen | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with gentleman=Material | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/23/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/)