Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 1

Just as he is about to eat it, a rude Rhinoceros, whose skin in those days fitted tight with no wrinkles, stomps up; the man scrambles up a palm tree, and the Rhino knocks over the stove, spikes the cake on his horn and eats it all.

Who acts: man, skin, rude Rhinoceros, Rhino · What happens: be, eat, fit, stomp up, scramble up, knock · To what, where: cake, palm tree, stove, horn

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, skin, rude Rhinoceros, Rhino), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	5 about	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 about	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stomps	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Rhinoceros	det
11	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Rhinoceros	amod
12	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 stomps	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 skin	punct
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 skin	nmod:poss
15	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fitted	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 days	case
17	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 days	det
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 skin	nmod
19	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Rhinoceros	acl:relcl
20	tight	tight	ADV	_	19 fitted	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 wrinkles	case
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 wrinkles	det
23	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fitted	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stomps	punct
25	stomps	stomp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 stomps	compound:prt
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 scrambles	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scrambles	nsubj
30	scrambles	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 stomps	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 scrambles	compound:prt
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tree	det
33	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tree	compound
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scrambles	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 knocks	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 knocks	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Rhino	det
38	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 knocks	nsubj
39	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 stomps	conj
40	over	over	ADP	_	42 stove	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 stove	det
42	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 knocks	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 spikes	punct
44	spikes	spike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 knocks	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 cake	det
46	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 spikes	obj
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 horn	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 horn	nmod:poss
49	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 spikes	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 eats	cc
51	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 spikes	conj
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 eats	obj
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 it	nmod:unmarked
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 stomps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	man			about property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here	cake			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	fit	past	skin in that days			with no wrinkles; tight property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	stomp up	present	a rude Rhinoceros				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	scramble up	present	the man	a palm tree			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
6	knock	present	the Rhino		the stove		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stove=Location
7	spike	present	the Rhino not said here	the cake	man's horn		tree rules
8	eat	present	the Rhino not said here	cake			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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