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title: So he went home, very angry indeed and horribly scratchy; and from t… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went home, very angry indeed and horribly scratchy; and from that day to this every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside. Who acts: Rhinoceros. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin,
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# Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 32

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So he went home, very angry indeed and horribly scratchy; and from that day to this every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside.

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**Who acts:** Rhinoceros · **What happens:** go, have, account · **To what, where:** great folds, skin, cake crumbs

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2781:4:32
# text = So he went home, very angry indeed and horribly scratchy; and from that day to this every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	horribly	horribly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	scratchy	scratchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nmod	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
41	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Rhinoceros |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | every rhinoceros | great folds and a bad temper and all account of the cake crumbs |  | Rhinoceros's skin | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fold=Patient |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | the cake crumbs |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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.

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