The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 5, sentence 192
Some king had built it long ago on a little hill.
What happens: build · To what, where: king, little hill
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | obj |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 ago | advmod |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 built | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hill | amod |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · perfect · passive | some king | a little hill | ago property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/5/192/