Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 10

He said, ‘How!’ and the Parsee left that cake and climbed to the top of a palm tree with nothing on but his hat, from which the rays of the sun were always reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.

Who acts: Rhinoceros, Parsee · What happens: say, leave, climb, reflect, ray · To what, where: hat, rays, more oriental splendour, sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhinoceros, Parsee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 How	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 How	punct
5	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 left	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 How	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 How	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 left	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Parsee	det
10	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 cake	mark
13	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 climbed	cc
15	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 top	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 top	det
18	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tree	det
21	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 top	nmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 nothing	case
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 climbed	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 hat	case
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 hat	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hat	nmod:poss
28	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 reflected	punct
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 reflected	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rays	det
33	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 reflected	nsubj:pass
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 sun	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sun	det
36	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rays	nmod
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 reflected	aux:pass
38	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	39 reflected	advmod
39	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 climbed	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	46 splendour	case
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 splendour	amod
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 more	punct
43	than	than	ADP	_	41 more	fixed
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 more	punct
45	oriental	oriental	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 splendour	compound
46	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 reflected	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Rhinoceros				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave	past	the Parsee				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	climb	past	Rhinoceros not said here		Rhinoceros's hat	to the top of a palm tree; with nothing	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
4	reflect	past · passive		the rays of the sun	more oriental splendour	always property	tree rules
5	ray			the sun			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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