Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 6

In those days the Rhinoceros’s skin fitted him quite tight.

Who acts: skin · What happens: fit · To what, where: Rhinoceros

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 (skin), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fitted	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rhinoceros	det
5	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 skin	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Rhinoceros	case
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fitted	nsubj
8	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fitted	obj
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 tight	advmod
11	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fitted	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	past	the Rhinoceros's skin	Rhinoceros			day	tight property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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