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title: The domed roof had half fallen in and blocked up the underground pas… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 27

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The domed roof had half fallen in and blocked up the underground passage from the palace by which the queens used to enter.

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**Who acts:** domed roof, queens · **What happens:** fall in, block up, use, enter · **To what, where:** underground passage, palace

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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 (domed roof, queens), 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:pg236:6:27
# text = The domed roof had half fallen in and blocked up the underground passage from the palace by which the queens used to enter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	domed	domed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	blocked	block	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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