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title: But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery--beautiful milk… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sente
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 28

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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.

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

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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 (moon), 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:pg236:6:28
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tracery	tracery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fretwork	fretwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	agates	agate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cornelians	cornelian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	jasper	jasper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	lapis	lapis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	lazuli	lazuli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	up	up	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	through	through	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
46	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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