Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 24
Then he climbed to the top of his palm-tree and waited for the Rhinoceros to come out of the water and put it on.
Who acts: Parsee · What happens: climb, wait, come out, put on · To what, where: top, water
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 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tree | nmod:poss |
| 9 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 palm | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 waited | cc |
| 13 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Rhinoceros | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Rhinoceros | det |
| 16 | Rhinoceros | Rhinoceros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 waited | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 waited | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 put | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Parsee | the top of Parsee's palm tree | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | |||
| 2 | wait | past | Parsee not said here | for the Rhinoceros | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come out | to-infinitive | Parsee not said here | the water | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result | ||||
| 4 | put on | infinitive | Parsee not said here | water | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/4/24/