Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 22

Then he went to his camp and filled his hat with cake-crumbs, for the Parsee never ate anything but cake, and never swept out his camp.

Who acts: Parsee · What happens: go, fill, not eat, not sweep out · To what, where: camp, hat, anything

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 camp	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 camp	nmod:poss
6	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 filled	cc
8	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hat	nmod:poss
10	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 filled	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 crumbs	case
12	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crumbs	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 cake	punct
14	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 filled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ate	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 ate	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Parsee	det
18	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ate	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 ate	advmod
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 ate	obj
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 cake	cc
23	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 anything	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swept	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 swept	cc
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 swept	advmod
27	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 swept	compound:prt
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 camp	nmod:poss
30	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swept	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Parsee		Parsee's camp	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location
2	fill	past	Parsee not said here	Parsee's hat			with cake crumbs	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hat=Patient with crumb=Instrument
3	not eat	past	the Parsee	anything				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	not sweep out	past	Parsee not said here	Parsee's camp				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme camp=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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