Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 8
He looked exactly like a Noah’s Ark Rhinoceros, but of course much bigger.
Who acts: Rhinoceros · What happens: look
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:71): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 Rhinoceros | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Rhinoceros | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Rhinoceros | det |
| 6 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ark | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Noah | case |
| 8 | Ark | Ark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rhinoceros | compound |
| 9 | Rhinoceros | rhinoceros | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bigger | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 bigger | cc |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bigger | advmod |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 of | fixed |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 bigger | advmod |
| 15 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 Rhinoceros | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Rhinoceros | like a Ark Rhinoceros | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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