Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 32
So he went home, very angry indeed and horribly scratchy; and from that day to this every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside.
Who acts: Rhinoceros · What happens: go, have, account · To what, where: great folds, skin, cake crumbs
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 angry | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 scratchy | cc |
| 10 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 11 scratchy | advmod |
| 11 | scratchy | scratchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 angry | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 has | cc |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 this | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | nmod |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 rhinoceros | det |
| 20 | rhinoceros | rhinoceros | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 folds | amod |
| 23 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 has | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 skin | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 skin | nmod:poss |
| 26 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 folds | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 temper | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 temper | det |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 bad | advmod |
| 30 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 temper | amod |
| 31 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 folds | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 account | punct |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 account | det |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 account | case |
| 35 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 folds | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 crumbs | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 crumbs | det |
| 38 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 crumbs | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 cake | punct |
| 40 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 account | nmod |
| 41 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 40 crumbs | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Rhinoceros | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | every rhinoceros | great folds and a bad temper and all account of the cake crumbs | Rhinoceros's skin | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fold=Patient | ||
| 3 | account | the cake crumbs | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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