Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 30
And it spoiled his temper, but it didn’t make the least difference to the cake-crumbs.
Who acts: fold, Rhinoceros · What happens: spoil, not make, temper · To what, where: temper, least difference
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 (fold, Rhinoceros), 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 | _ | 3 spoiled | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoiled | nsubj |
| 3 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 temper | nmod:poss |
| 5 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoiled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 make | advmod |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spoiled | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 difference | det |
| 13 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 difference | amod |
| 14 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 crumbs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crumbs | det |
| 17 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crumbs | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 cake | punct |
| 19 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | past | fold | Rhinoceros's temper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make | past · do-support | fold | the least difference | to the cake crumbs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product | |||
| 3 | temper | Rhinoceros | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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