Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 11

And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail, to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and Promontories of the Larger Equinox.

Who acts: Rhinoceros, cake, Uninhabited Interior · What happens: upset, roll, spike, eat, go away, wave · To what, where: oil stove, sand, cake, horn, tail, Uninhabited Interior

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhinoceros, cake, Uninhabited Interior), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 upset	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rhinoceros	det
3	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 upset	nsubj
4	upset	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stove	det
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stove	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 oil	punct
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 upset	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 nose	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nose	nmod:poss
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stove	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rolled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rolled	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cake	det
15	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rolled	nsubj
16	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 upset	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 sand	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sand	det
19	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rolled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spiked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spiked	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spiked	nsubj
23	spiked	spike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 upset	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 cake	mark
25	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spiked	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 horn	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 horn	det
28	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spiked	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 nose	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nose	nmod:poss
31	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 horn	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ate	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ate	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ate	nsubj
35	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 upset	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ate	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 went	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 upset	conj
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 went	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 waving	punct
43	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 went	advcl
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 tail	nmod:poss
45	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 waving	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 desolate	punct
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 desolate	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 desolate	det
49	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 waving	advcl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 Interior	cc
51	Exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	53 Interior	advmod
52	Uninhabited	Uninhabited	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Interior	compound
53	Interior	Interior	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 desolate	obj
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 abuts	nsubj
55	abuts	abut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 Interior	acl:relcl
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 islands	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 islands	det
58	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 abuts	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 Mazanderan	case
60	Mazanderan	Mazanderan	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 islands	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 Socotra	punct
62	Socotra	Socotra	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Mazanderan	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 Promontories	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 Promontories	cc
65	Promontories	promontory	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 Interior	conj
66	of	of	ADP	_	69 Equinox	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 Equinox	det
68	Larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	69 Equinox	amod
69	Equinox	equinox	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 Promontories	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 upset	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	upset	past	the Rhinoceros	the oil stove		with Rhinoceros's nose	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stove=Experiencer
2	roll	participle	the cake		the sand		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Trajectory
3	spike	past	Rhinoceros	cake	the horn of Rhinoceros's nose		tree rules
4	eat	past	Rhinoceros	cake			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	go away	past	Rhinoceros			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wave	gerund	Rhinoceros not said here	Rhinoceros's tail			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
7	desolate	infinitive	Rhinoceros not said here	Uninhabited Interior and Promontories of the Larger Equinox			tree rules
8	abut	present	Uninhabited Interior and Promontories of the Larger Equinox		the islands of Mazanderan and Socotra		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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