Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 20
Presently the Parsee came by and found the skin, and he smiled one smile that ran all round his face two times.
Who acts: Parsee, one smile · What happens: come by, find, smile, run · To what, where: skin, one smile, face
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, one smile), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Parsee | det |
| 3 | Parsee | Parsee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skin | det |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smiled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smiled | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 smiled | nsubj |
| 13 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 smile | nummod |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smiled | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 smile | acl:relcl |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 face | advmod |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 face | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 face | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come by | past | the Parsee | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the Parsee not said here | the skin | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | Parsee | one smile | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Topic | ||||
| 4 | run | past | one smile | Parsee's face | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round face=Trajectory |
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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