Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 17
In those days it buttoned underneath with three buttons and looked like a waterproof.
Who acts: skin · What happens: button, look
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 (skin), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 buttoned | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 buttoned | nsubj |
| 5 | buttoned | button | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 5 buttoned | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 buttons | case |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 buttons | nummod |
| 9 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 buttoned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 buttoned | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 waterproof | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 waterproof | det |
| 14 | waterproof | waterproof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 buttoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | button | past | skin | day | with three buttons; underneath property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with button=Instrument | |||
| 2 | look | past | skin not said here | like a waterproof | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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