Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 16

The Parsee took off his hat; but the Rhinoceros took off his skin and carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe.

Who acts: Parsee, Rhinoceros · What happens: take off, carry, come down, bathe · To what, where: hat, skin, shoulder, beach

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 (Parsee, Rhinoceros), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Parsee	det
2	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
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	3 took	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rhinoceros	det
10	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 took	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 skin	nmod:poss
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 carried	cc
16	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carried	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 shoulder	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoulder	nmod:poss
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carried	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 carried	advcl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 beach	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 beach	det
27	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bathe	mark
29	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 beach	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take off	past	the Parsee	Parsee's hat			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
2	take off	past	the Rhinoceros	Parsee's skin			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
3	carry	past	the Rhinoceros not said here	skin	Parsee's shoulder		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	come down	past	Rhinoceros		the beach	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location
5	bathe	to-infinitive	Rhinoceros not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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.

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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