Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 29

He rubbed so much and so hard that he rubbed his skin into a great fold over his shoulders, and another fold underneath, where the buttons used to be (but he rubbed the buttons off), and he rubbed some more folds over his legs.

Who acts: Rhinoceros, buttons · What happens: rub, use, be · To what, where: fold, skin, great fold, more folds, legs

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, buttons), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 rubbed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rubbed	cc
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 rubbed	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 rubbed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rubbed	nsubj
10	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 skin	nmod:poss
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rubbed	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 fold	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fold	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fold	amod
16	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rubbed	obl
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 shoulders	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shoulders	nmod:poss
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fold	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fold	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fold	cc
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 fold	det
23	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rubbed	obl
24	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	2 rubbed	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 used	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 used	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 buttons	det
28	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 used	nsubj
29	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	35 rubbed	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 rubbed	cop
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 rubbed	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 rubbed	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rubbed	nsubj
35	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 used	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 buttons	det
37	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 rubbed	obj
38	off	off	ADP	_	35 rubbed	compound:prt
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 used	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 rubbed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 rubbed	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 rubbed	nsubj
43	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	parataxis
44	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 folds	det
45	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 folds	amod
46	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 rubbed	obj
47	over	over	ADP	_	49 legs	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 legs	nmod:poss
49	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 rubbed	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rub	past	Rhinoceros	another fold		underneath property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	rub	past	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros's skin	a great fold over Rhinoceros's shoulders	hard property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent skin=Theme into fold=Destination
3	use	past	the buttons				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive	Rhinoceros			rub property	tree rules
5	rub	past	Rhinoceros	some more folds	Rhinoceros's legs		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fold=Theme over leg=Destination

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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