--- title: The Rhino said "How!", the Parsee climbed a palm tree, and the Rhino… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rhino said "How!", the Parsee climbed a palm tree, and the Rhino "upset the oil-stove with his nose" and "spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it", and went away waving his tail, saying nothing whatever. Who acts: Rhino, Parsee. 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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 (Rhino, Parsee), 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:10 # text = The Rhino said "How!", the Parsee climbed a palm tree, and the Rhino "upset the oil-stove with his nose" and "spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it", and went away waving his tail, saying nothing whatever. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rhino Rhino PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Parsee parsee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Rhino Rhino PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 upset upset VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 spiked spike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 49 away away ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 50 waving wave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ _ 55 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 54 obj _ _ 56 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 55 conj _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Rhino | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **climb** | past | the Parsee | a palm tree | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **upset** *in a quote* | past | the Rhino | the oil stove | | | | with Parsee's nose | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stove=Experiencer | | 4 | **spike** *in a quote* | past | the Rhino *not said here* | that cake | | the horn of Parsee's nose | | | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | Parsee | cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **go away** | past | the Rhino *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **wave** | gerund | the Rhino *not said here* | Parsee's tail | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Rhino *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | 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:10`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/9/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/)