--- title: The Rhinoceros came with "a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and fe… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rhinoceros came with "a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners"; his skin "fitted him quite tight. Who acts: Rhinoceros, skin. 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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 (Rhinoceros, skin), 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:8 # text = The Rhinoceros came with "a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners"; his skin "fitted him quite tight. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rhinoceros Rhinoceros PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 piggy piggy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 fitted fit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 quite quite ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 tight tight ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | **come** | past | the Rhinoceros | | | | | with a horn on Parsee's nose and two piggy eyes and few manners | tree rules | | 2 | **fit** *in a quote* | past | Parsee's skin | Parsee | | | | tight *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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. 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