Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 2
And the Parsee lived by the Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch.
Who acts: Parsee, you · What happens: live, not touch · To what, where: kind
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, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lived | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Parsee | det |
| 3 | Parsee | Parsee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sea | det |
| 7 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sea | compound |
| 8 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 nothing | case |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 lived | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hat | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knife | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 knife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hat | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stove | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stove | det |
| 19 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stove | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 cooking | punct |
| 21 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 kind | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kind | det |
| 24 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stove | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 touch | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 touch | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 touch | aux |
| 28 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 30 touch | advmod |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 touch | advmod |
| 30 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 kind | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Parsee | by the Red Sea; with nothing | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with nothing=Location | ||||
| 2 | not touch | must | you | the kind | particularly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme |
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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