The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 28

But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery--beautiful milk-white fretwork, set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli, and as the moon came up behind the hill it shone through the open work, casting shadows on the ground like black velvet embroidery.

Who acts: moon · What happens: make, come up, shine, cast · To what, where: walls, hill, open work, shadows, ground

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 (moon), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 walls	det
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 screens	case
7	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 tracery	case
9	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tracery	amod
10	tracery	tracery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 screens	nmod
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 fretwork	punct
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fretwork	amod
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 white	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 milk	punct
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fretwork	amod
16	fretwork	fretwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tracery	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
18	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tracery	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 agates	case
20	agates	agate	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 set	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cornelians	cc
22	cornelians	cornelian	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 agates	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 jasper	cc
24	jasper	jasper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 agates	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lazuli	cc
26	lapis	lapis	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lazuli	compound
27	lazuli	lazuli	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jasper	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 came	cc
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 came	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moon	det
32	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
34	up	up	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	37 hill	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hill	det
37	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 shone	nsubj
39	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hill	acl:relcl
40	through	through	ADP	_	43 work	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 work	det
42	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 work	amod
43	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shone	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 casting	punct
45	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 came	advcl
46	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 casting	obj
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 ground	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 ground	det
49	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 casting	obl
50	like	like	ADP	_	53 embroidery	case
51	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 embroidery	amod
52	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 embroidery	compound
53	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 casting	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the walls		of screens of marble tracery and beautiful white fretwork and set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	come up	past	the moon		the hill		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind hill=Location
3	shine	past	moon	the hill not said here	the open work		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hill=Theme
4	cast	gerund	the moon not said here	shadows	the ground	like black velvet embroidery	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on ground=Destination

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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