Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 5

But just as he was going to eat it there came down to the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior one Rhinoceros with a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners.

Who acts: Parsee · What happens: go, eat, come down · To what, where: cake, beach

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 eat	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 beach	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beach	det
15	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 Uninhabited	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Uninhabited	det
18	Altogether	Altogether	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Uninhabited	compound
19	Uninhabited	Uninhabited	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 beach	nmod
20	Interior	Interior	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Uninhabited	flat
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 Rhinoceros	nummod
22	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Uninhabited	nmod:desc
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 horn	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 horn	det
25	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 nose	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nose	nmod:poss
28	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 horn	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eyes	punct
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 eyes	nummod
31	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eyes	compound
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 horn	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 manners	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 manners	cc
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 manners	amod
36	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 horn	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Parsee				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	to-infinitive	Parsee not said here	cake	there		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	come down	past			the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited one Rhinoceros	with a horn on Parsee's nose and two piggy eyes and few manners; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location

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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