Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 13
Them that takes cakes Which the Parsee-man bakes Makes dreadful mistakes.
Who acts: Them, Parsee man · What happens: take, bake · To what, where: cakes
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 (Them, Parsee man), 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 | Them | them | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 takes | obj |
| 5 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 bakes | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 7 | Parsee | Parsee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 man | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Parsee | punct |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bakes | nsubj |
| 10 | bakes | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cakes | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Makes | make | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bakes | obj |
| 12 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mistakes | amod |
| 13 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Makes | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Them | cakes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bake | present | the Parsee man | cakes | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary make=Product |
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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