Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 7
He made "one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick", from flour, water, currants, plums and sugar; Kipling calls it "a Superior Comestible" ("comestible" = something to eat).
Who acts: Parsee, Kipling · What happens: make, be, call, eat · To what, where: one cake, flour, two feet, cake · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Kipling), 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cake | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cake | nummod |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 feet | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 feet | cop |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 feet | nummod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 across | obl |
| 10 | across | across | ADV | _ | 2 made | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thick | cc |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thick | obl |
| 14 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 across | conj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thick | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flour | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 flour | case |
| 18 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 water | punct |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flour | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 currants | punct |
| 22 | currants | currant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flour | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 plums | punct |
| 24 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flour | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sugar | cc |
| 26 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flour | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 calls | punct |
| 28 | Kipling | kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 calls | nsubj |
| 29 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 calls | obj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Comestible | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 Comestible | det |
| 33 | Superior | Superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Comestible | amod |
| 34 | Comestible | comestible | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 calls | xcomp |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Comestible | punct |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 comestible | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 comestible | punct |
| 38 | comestible | comestible | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Comestible | appos |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 comestible | punct |
| 40 | = | = | SYM | _ | 41 something | punct |
| 41 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 Comestible | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 eat | mark |
| 43 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 something | acl |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 plums | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Parsee | one cake | flour and water and currants and plums and sugar | across property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent cake=Product from flour=Material | ||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | two feet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | present | Kipling | cake | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | Kipling not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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