Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 3

And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things, and made himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick.

Who acts: Parsee, one cake · What happens: take, make, be · To what, where: flour, Parsee, two feet

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 cake), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 water	cc
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flour	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 currants	cc
10	currants	currant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flour	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 plums	cc
12	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 currants	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sugar	cc
14	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 currants	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 things	cc
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sugar	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 made	obj
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 cake	nummod
22	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feet	nsubj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 feet	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 feet	cop
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 feet	nummod
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 made	obl:unmarked
27	across	across	ADV	_	26 feet	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 feet	cc
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 feet	nummod
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feet	conj
31	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feet	amod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Parsee	flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Theme
2	make	past	Parsee not said here	Parsee			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
3	is a	past	one cake	two feet and three feet		across property	tree rules

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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