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title: He had only "his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind t… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics
description: He had only "his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch", and the sun flashed brightly off his hat. Who acts: Parsee, you, sun. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books course of Mo
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 6

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He had only "his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch", and the sun flashed brightly off his hat.

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**Who acts:** Parsee, you, sun · **What happens:** have, not touch, flash · **To what, where:** hat, kind

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parsee, you, sun), 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:6
# text = He had only "his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch", and the sun flashed brightly off his hat.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
30	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Parsee | Parsee's hat and Parsee's knife and a cooking stove of the kind |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **touch** *in a quote* | must | you | the kind |  |  |  | particularly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **flash** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | off Parsee's hat; brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-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/).

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