The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 27
The domed roof had half fallen in and blocked up the underground passage from the palace by which the queens used to enter.
Who acts: domed roof, queens · What happens: fall in, block up, use, enter · To what, where: underground passage, palace
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 (domed roof, queens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roof | det |
| 2 | domed | domed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 roof | amod |
| 3 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fallen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | aux |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 fallen | nsubj |
| 6 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 fallen | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blocked | cc |
| 9 | blocked | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 blocked | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 passage | det |
| 12 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 passage | amod |
| 13 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blocked | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blocked | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 used | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 queens | det |
| 20 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 used | nsubj |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 palace | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 enter | mark |
| 23 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 used | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in | past · perfect | the domed roof | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | block up | past | the domed roof not said here | the underground passage | the palace | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer passage=Beneficiary from palace=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | use | past | the queens | by the palace | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | enter | to-infinitive | the queens not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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