The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 1

A great roofless palace crowned the hill, and the marble of the courtyards and the fountains was split, and stained with red and green, and the very cobblestones in the courtyard where the king’s elephants used to live had been thrust up and apart by grasses and young trees.

Who acts: great roofless palace, elephants, cobblestones · What happens: crown, split, stain, use, live, be · To what, where: hill, marble, thrust

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great roofless palace, elephants, cobblestones), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 palace	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 palace	amod
3	roofless	roofless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 palace	amod
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crowned	nsubj
5	crowned	crown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crowned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 split	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 split	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 marble	det
11	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 split	nsubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 courtyards	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 courtyards	det
14	courtyards	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 marble	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fountains	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fountains	det
17	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 courtyards	conj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 split	aux:pass
19	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 crowned	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stained	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stained	cc
22	stained	stain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crowned	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 red	case
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stained	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 green	cc
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 red	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 thrust	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 thrust	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cobblestones	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 cobblestones	advmod
31	cobblestones	cobblestone	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 thrust	nsubj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 courtyard	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 courtyard	det
34	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cobblestones	nmod
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 used	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 elephants	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 king	case
39	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 used	nsubj
40	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 courtyard	acl:relcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 live	mark
42	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 used	xcomp
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 thrust	aux
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 thrust	cop
45	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stained	obl
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 thrust	compound
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 apart	cc
48	apart	apart	ADV	_	46 up	conj
49	by	by	ADP	_	50 grasses	case
50	grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 thrust	nmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 trees	cc
52	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 trees	amod
53	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 grasses	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crowned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	crown	past	a great roofless palace	the hill		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme
2	split	past · passive		the marble of the courtyards and the fountains		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	stain	past	a great roofless palace not said here		with red	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with red=Theme
4	use	past	the king's elephants			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	live	to-infinitive	the king's elephants not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past · perfect	the cobblestones in the courtyard	thrust	by grasses and young trees	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.

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