--- title: And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake r… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail, to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and Promon --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/4/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/4/) / 11 # Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 11 And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail, to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and Promontories of the Larger Equinox. **Who acts:** Rhinoceros, cake, Uninhabited Interior · **What happens:** upset, roll, spike, eat, go away, wave · **To what, where:** oil stove, sand, cake, horn, tail, Uninhabited Interior 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, cake, Uninhabited Interior), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:4:11 # text = And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail, to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and Promontories of the Larger Equinox. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Rhinoceros Rhinoceros PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 upset upset VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 rolled roll VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 spiked spike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 41 away away ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 waving wave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 desolate desolate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 51 Exclusively exclusively ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 52 Uninhabited Uninhabited PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 Interior Interior PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 54 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 55 nsubj _ _ 55 abuts abut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 acl:relcl _ _ 56 on on ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obl _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 Mazanderan Mazanderan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 Socotra Socotra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 Promontories promontory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 conj _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 68 Larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 69 amod _ _ 69 Equinox equinox NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **upset** | past | the Rhinoceros | the oil stove | | | | with Rhinoceros's nose | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stove=Experiencer | | 2 | **roll** | participle | the cake | | | the sand | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Trajectory | | 3 | **spike** | past | Rhinoceros | cake | | the horn of Rhinoceros's nose | | | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | past | Rhinoceros | cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **go away** | past | Rhinoceros | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **wave** | gerund | Rhinoceros *not said here* | Rhinoceros's tail | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 7 | **desolate** | infinitive | Rhinoceros *not said here* | Uninhabited Interior and Promontories of the Larger Equinox | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **abut** | present | Uninhabited Interior and Promontories of the Larger Equinox | | | the islands of Mazanderan and Socotra | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/4/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/4/12/) - ↑ back to [How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/4/)