--- title: There are great cleared flat places hidden away in the forests that… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics description: There are great cleared flat places hidden away in the forests that are called elephants’ ball-rooms, but even these are only found by accident, and no man has ever seen the elephants dance. Who acts: great cleared flat places, accident, man, elephants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great cleared flat places, accident, man, elephants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg236:1923`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg236:16:109 # text = There are great cleared flat places hidden away in the forests that are called elephants’ ball-rooms, but even these are only found by accident, and no man has ever seen the elephants dance. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 cleared clear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 5 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 7 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ _ 15 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ’ 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 35 advmod _ _ 35 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | great cleared flat places | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **clear** | participle | | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 3 | **hide away** | participle | | great cleared flat places *not said here* | | the forests | | away *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | great cleared flat places | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **find** | present · passive | accident | these | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | | 6 | **see** | present · perfect | no man | elephants | | | ever | | tree rules | | 7 | **dance** | infinitive | elephants *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/110/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/16/)