Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 14

The Rhino "rolled and rolled and rolled", and the more he scratched the worse it tickled; then he rubbed against the palm tree so hard that he made "a great fold over his shoulders, and another fold underneath", rubbed the buttons off, and made more folds over his legs.

Who acts: Rhino, plenty · What happens: roll, scratch, tickle, rub, make, rub off · To what, where: palm tree, great fold, shoulders, buttons, more folds, legs

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, plenty), 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	4 rolled	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rolled	punct
4	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rolled	cc
6	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rolled	cc
8	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rolled	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scratched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 scratched	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 more	det
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 scratched	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 scratched	nsubj
15	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 worse	det
17	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 scratched	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tickled	nsubj
19	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 rubbed	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 rubbed	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rubbed	nsubj
23	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 scratched	parataxis
24	against	against	ADP	_	27 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
26	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tree	compound
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rubbed	obl
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 hard	advmod
29	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 rubbed	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 made	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hard	ccomp
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 fold	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fold	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fold	amod
36	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
37	over	over	ADP	_	39 shoulders	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 shoulders	nmod:poss
39	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fold	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 underneath	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 underneath	cc
42	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	43 fold	det
43	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 underneath	compound
44	underneath	underneath	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	parataxis
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 underneath	punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 rubbed	punct
47	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 scratched	parataxis
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 buttons	det
49	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 rubbed	obj
50	off	off	ADP	_	47 rubbed	compound:prt
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 made	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 made	cc
53	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 rubbed	conj
54	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	55 folds	amod
55	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 made	obj
56	over	over	ADP	_	58 legs	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 legs	nmod:poss
58	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 made	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll in a quote	past	the Rhino					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll in a quote	past	the Rhino not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll in a quote	past	the Rhino not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scratch	past	Rhino					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tickle	past	plenty					vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	rub	past	Rhino		the palm tree	then	hard property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against tree=Destination
7	make	past	Rhino	a great fold	Rhino's shoulders			tree rules
8	rub off	past		the buttons				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent button=Theme
9	make	past		more folds	Rhino's legs			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fold=Product

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:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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