Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 2

Five weeks later, in a heat wave, the Rhino takes off his skin, which then buttoned underneath like a raincoat, and leaves it on the beach while he bathes.

Who acts: Rhino, skin · What happens: take off, button, leave, bathe · To what, where: skin, heat wave, beach

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, skin), 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 takes	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 later	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 wave	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wave	det
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wave	compound
8	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 takes	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wave	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rhino	det
11	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 takes	nsubj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 takes	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 skin	nmod:poss
15	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 takes	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 buttoned	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 buttoned	nsubj
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 buttoned	advmod
19	buttoned	button	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 skin	acl:relcl
20	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	19 buttoned	advmod
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 raincoat	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 raincoat	det
23	raincoat	raincoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 buttoned	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 leaves	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 leaves	cc
26	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 takes	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leaves	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 beach	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 beach	det
30	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaves	obl
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 bathes	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bathes	nsubj
33	bathes	bathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 leaves	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	present	the Rhino	Rhino's skin	a heat wave		late property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	button	past	Rhino's skin			then	like a raincoat; underneath property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	leave	present	the Rhino not said here	skin	the beach			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on beach=Location
4	bathe	present	Rhino					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:2.

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, 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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