Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 31
They were inside his skin and they tickled.
Who acts: buttons · What happens: be, tickle · 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 (buttons), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 skin | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skin | cop |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 skin | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 skin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tickled | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tickled | nsubj |
| 8 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skin | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | buttons = button | Rhinoceros's skin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tickle | past | buttons = button | 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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