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title: There was a ruined summer-house of white marble in the center of the… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 26

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There was a ruined summer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago.

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**Who acts:** ruined summer house · **What happens:** be, ruin, build · **To what, where:** white marble

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:6:26
# text = There was a ruined summer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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