Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 9

All the same, he had no manners then, and he has no manners now, and he never will have any manners.

Who acts: Rhinoceros · What happens: have, not have · To what, where: manners

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 same	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 same	parataxis
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 manners	det
8	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 had	obj
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 had	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 has	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 manners	det
15	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 has	obj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 has	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 have	advmod
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 has	conj
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 manners	det
24	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 have	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	Rhinoceros	no manners	then	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient
2	have	present	Rhinoceros	no manners	now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient
3	not have	future	Rhinoceros	any manners		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=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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