--- title: Just as he is about to eat it, a rude Rhinoceros, whose skin in thos… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: Just as he is about to eat it, a rude Rhinoceros, whose skin in those days fitted tight with no wrinkles, stomps up; the man scrambles up a palm tree, and the Rhino knocks over the stove, spikes the cake on his horn and eats it all. Who acts: man, skin, rude Rhinoceros, Rhino. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, skin, rude Rhinoceros, Rhino), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson:1 # text = Just as he is about to eat it, a rude Rhinoceros, whose skin in those days fitted tight with no wrinkles, stomps up; the man scrambles up a palm tree, and the Rhino knocks over the stove, spikes the cake on his horn and eats it all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Rhinoceros Rhinoceros PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 fitted fit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 20 tight tight ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 wrinkles wrinkle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 stomps stomp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 scrambles scramble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Rhino Rhino PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 40 over over ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 spikes spike VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:nmod 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obj _ _ 53 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 52 nmod:unmarked _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | man | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **fit** | past | skin in that days | | | | | with no wrinkles; tight *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stomp up** | present | a rude Rhinoceros | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **scramble up** | present | the man | a palm tree | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 6 | **knock** | present | the Rhino | | | the stove | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stove=Location | | 7 | **spike** | present | the Rhino *not said here* | the cake | | man's horn | | | tree rules | | 8 | **eat** | present | the Rhino *not said here* | cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/0/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/)