Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 26

He buttoned it up with the three buttons, and it tickled like cake crumbs in bed.

Who acts: Rhinoceros, water · What happens: button up, tickle · To what, where: 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 (Rhinoceros, water), 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 buttoned	nsubj
2	buttoned	button	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 buttoned	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 buttoned	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 buttons	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buttons	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 buttons	nummod
8	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buttoned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tickled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tickled	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tickled	nsubj
12	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 buttoned	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 crumbs	case
14	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crumbs	compound
15	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tickled	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 bed	case
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crumbs	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 buttoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	button up	past	Rhinoceros	water				with the three buttons	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with button=Instrument
2	tickle	past	water					like cake crumbs in bed	vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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