Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 6
He had only "his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch", and the sun flashed brightly off his hat.
Who acts: Parsee, you, sun · What happens: have, not touch, flash · To what, where: hat, kind
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parsee, you, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hat | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hat | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stove | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stove | det |
| 12 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stove | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 cooking | punct |
| 14 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hat | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kind | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kind | det |
| 17 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stove | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 touch | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 touch | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 touch | aux |
| 21 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 23 touch | advmod |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 touch | advmod |
| 23 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kind | acl:relcl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 touch | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 flashed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 flashed | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sun | det |
| 28 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 flashed | nsubj |
| 29 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 30 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 29 flashed | advmod |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 hat | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hat | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 flashed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Parsee | Parsee's hat and Parsee's knife and a cooking stove of the kind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not touch in a quote | must | you | the kind | particularly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | flash | past | the sun | off Parsee's hat; brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson:6.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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