The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 26
There was a ruined summer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago.
Who acts: ruined summer house · What happens: be, ruin, build · To what, where: white marble
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 (ruined summer house), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 4 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 house | amod |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 summer | punct |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 marble | case |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 marble | amod |
| 10 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 center | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 center | det |
| 13 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marble | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 terrace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 terrace | det |
| 16 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 center | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 built | punct |
| 18 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 marble | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 queens | case |
| 20 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 built | obl |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 queens | amod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 years | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 21 dead | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a ruined summer house of white marble in the center of the terrace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | build | participle | white marble in the center of the terrace not said here | for queens | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for queen=Beneficiary |
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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