Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 0

Once the Kangaroo was a grey, woolly animal with four short legs and far too much pride, and he went to three made-up gods in turn, asking to be made "different from all other animals" by five o'clock that afternoon.

Who acts: Kangaroo, five o'clock · What happens: be, go, make up, ask, make · To what, where: turn

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» 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 (Kangaroo, five o'clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	SCONJ	_	9 animal	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Kangaroo	det
3	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 animal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grey	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct
8	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 legs	case
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 legs	nummod
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 legs	amod
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 animal	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pride	cc
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 much	advmod
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pride	amod
18	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 legs	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 animal	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	28 gods	case
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 gods	nummod
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 gods	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 up	punct
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 made	compound:prt
28	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 went	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 turn	case
30	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 asking	punct
32	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 went	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	35 made	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 made	aux:pass
35	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 asking	xcomp
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 different	punct
37	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 made	xcomp
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 animals	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 animals	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 animals	amod
41	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 different	obl
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 different	punct
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 o'clock	case
44	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 o'clock	nummod
45	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	obl
46	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 afternoon	det
47	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 o'clock	nmod:unmarked
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			grey property	tree rules
2	go	past	Kangaroo	turn	to three made gods	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to god=Initial_Location
3	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	Kangaroo not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	five o'clock that afternoon		different property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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