Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 23

He took that skin, and he shook that skin, and he scrubbed that skin, and he rubbed that skin just as full of old, dry, stale, tickly cake-crumbs and some burned currants as ever it could possibly hold.

Who acts: Parsee, skin · What happens: take, shake, scrub, rub, burn, hold · To what, where: skin

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shook	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shook	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shook	nsubj
8	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 skin	mark
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shook	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scrubbed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 scrubbed	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scrubbed	nsubj
14	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 skin	mark
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scrubbed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rubbed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rubbed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rubbed	nsubj
20	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 skin	mark
22	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rubbed	obj
23	just	just	ADV	_	25 full	advmod
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 full	advmod
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rubbed	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	36 crumbs	case
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 crumbs	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dry	punct
29	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 old	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stale	punct
31	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 old	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 old	punct
33	tickly	tickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 crumbs	amod
34	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 crumbs	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 cake	punct
36	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 full	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 currants	cc
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 currants	det
39	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 currants	amod
40	currants	currant	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 crumbs	conj
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 hold	mark
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	46 hold	advmod
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 hold	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 hold	aux
45	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	46 hold	advmod
46	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 rubbed	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Parsee	that skin			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	shake	past	Parsee	skin			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
3	scrub	past	Parsee	skin			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent skin=Source
4	rub	past	Parsee	skin			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
5	burn	participle					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hold	could	skin		ever	possibly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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