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title: That line grew and grew and grew till it was three-quarters of a mil… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That line grew and grew and grew till it was three-quarters of a mile long from wing to wing--one solid wall of men, horses, and guns. Who acts: line, circle. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 153

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That line grew and grew and grew till it was three-quarters of a mile long from wing to wing--one solid wall of men, horses, and guns.

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**Who acts:** line, circle · **What happens:** grow, be · **To what, where:** guns, three quarters

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (line, circle), 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:pg236:20:153
# text = That line grew and grew and grew till it was three-quarters of a mile long from wing to wing--one solid wall of men, horses, and guns.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | that line | guns |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | that line *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | that line *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | circle | three quarters and one solid wall of men and horses |  |  |  | of a mile | tree rules |

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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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