Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 15

The story says every rhinoceros since has "great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside".

Who acts: story, rhinoceros · What happens: say, have, account · To what, where: rhinoceros, great folds, skin, cake crumbs · 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 (story, rhinoceros), 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 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 rhinoceros	det
5	rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 has	mark
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rhinoceros	acl:relcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 folds	punct
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 folds	amod
10	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 skin	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 skin	nmod:poss
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 folds	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 temper	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 temper	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 bad	advmod
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 temper	amod
18	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 folds	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 account	punct
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 account	det
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 account	case
22	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rhinoceros	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 crumbs	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 crumbs	det
25	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crumbs	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 cake	punct
27	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 account	nmod
28	inside	inside	ADV	_	27 crumbs	advmod
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 rhinoceros	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the story	every rhinoceros and all account of the cake crumbs		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rhinoceros=Topic
2	have	present	every rhinoceros and all account of the cake crumbs not said here	great folds and a bad temper	story's skin	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fold=Patient
3	account in a quote			the cake crumbs		nom account «communication transitive»: of=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:15.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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