Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 10

The Rhino said "How!", the Parsee climbed a palm tree, and the Rhino "upset the oil-stove with his nose" and "spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it", and went away waving his tail, saying nothing whatever.

Who acts: Rhino, Parsee · What happens: say, climb, upset, spike, eat, go away · To what, where: palm tree, oil stove, cake, horn, tail, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rhino, Parsee), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rhino	det
2	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 How	punct
5	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 climbed	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 How	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 How	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 climbed	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Parsee	det
10	Parsee	parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 climbed	nsubj
11	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
13	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climbed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 upset	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 upset	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Rhino	det
18	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 upset	nsubj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 upset	punct
20	upset	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stove	det
22	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stove	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 oil	punct
24	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 upset	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 nose	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nose	nmod:poss
27	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 upset	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 upset	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spiked	cc
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 spiked	punct
31	spiked	spike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 upset	conj
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 cake	det
33	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spiked	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 horn	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 horn	det
36	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spiked	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 nose	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 nose	nmod:poss
39	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 horn	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 ate	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 ate	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 ate	nsubj
43	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 ate	obj
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 ate	punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 went	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 went	cc
48	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
49	away	away	ADV	_	48 went	advmod
50	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 went	advcl
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 tail	nmod:poss
52	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 waving	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 saying	punct
54	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 went	advcl
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	54 saying	obj
56	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 nothing	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Rhino				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	climb	past	the Parsee	a palm tree			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	upset in a quote	past	the Rhino	the oil stove		with Parsee's nose	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stove=Experiencer
4	spike in a quote	past	the Rhino not said here	that cake	the horn of Parsee's nose		tree rules
5	eat in a quote	past	Parsee	cake			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	go away	past	the Rhino not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wave	gerund	the Rhino not said here	Parsee's tail			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
8	say speech: assert	gerund	the Rhino not said here	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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:10.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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