Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 27

Then he wanted to scratch, but that made it worse; and then he lay down on the sands and rolled and rolled and rolled, and every time he rolled the cake crumbs tickled him worse and worse and worse.

Who acts: Rhinoceros, that, cake crumbs · What happens: want, scratch, make, lie down, roll, tickle · To what, where: water, sands, Rhinoceros

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, that, cake crumbs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wanted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scratch	mark
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 made	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 lay	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	parataxis
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 lay	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 sands	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sands	det
20	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lay	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rolled	cc
22	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lay	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rolled	cc
24	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 rolled	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rolled	cc
26	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 rolled	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rolled	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rolled	cc
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rolled	obl:unmarked
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rolled	nsubj
32	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 crumbs	det
34	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crumbs	compound
35	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tickled	nsubj
36	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 rolled	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tickled	obj
38	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 tickled	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 worse	cc
40	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 worse	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 worse	cc
42	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 worse	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Rhinoceros			then		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	scratch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rhinoceros not said here					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	that	water			bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	lie down	past	Rhinoceros		the sands	then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sand=Location
5	roll	participle	Rhinoceros not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	roll	participle	Rhinoceros not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	roll	participle	Rhinoceros not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	roll	past	Rhinoceros			time		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	tickle	past	the cake crumbs	Rhinoceros			bad property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer

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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