Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 18

He said nothing whatever about the Parsee’s cake, because he had eaten it all; and he never had any manners, then, since, or henceforward.

Who acts: wave · What happens: say, eat, not have · To what, where: nothing, skin, manners · 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 (wave), 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	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 nothing	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 cake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Parsee	det
7	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cake	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Parsee	case
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whatever	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 eaten	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 it	det
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 had	advmod
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 manners	det
23	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 then	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 had	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 henceforward	punct
27	since	since	SCONJ	_	30 henceforward	mark
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 henceforward	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 henceforward	cc
30	henceforward	henceforward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 had	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wave	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	eat	past · perfect	wave	skin		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	not have	past	wave	any manners	then	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=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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