Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 8
The Rhinoceros came with "a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners"; his skin "fitted him quite tight.
Who acts: Rhinoceros, skin · What happens: come, fit · To what, where: Parsee · 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 (Rhinoceros, skin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rhinoceros | det |
| 2 | Rhinoceros | Rhinoceros | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 horn | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 horn | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horn | det |
| 7 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 nose | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horn | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 eyes | nummod |
| 13 | piggy | piggy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eyes | compound |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 horn | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 manners | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 manners | cc |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 manners | amod |
| 18 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 horn | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 horn | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 fitted | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 skin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fitted | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 skin | punct |
| 24 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fitted | obj |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 27 tight | advmod |
| 27 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 24 fitted | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Rhinoceros | with a horn on Parsee's nose and two piggy eyes and few manners | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fit in a quote | past | Parsee's skin | Parsee | tight property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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:8.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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