Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 12

At "the Wollgong River" there was no bridge and no ferry-boat, "so he stood on his legs and hopped": "First he hopped one yard; then he hopped three yards; then he hopped five yards; his legs growing stronger; his legs growing longer."

Who acts: bridge, legs · What happens: be, stand, hop, grow · To what, where: Wollgong River, legs, one yard, three yards, five yards

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 (bridge, legs), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 River	case
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 River	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 River	det
4	Wollgong	Wollgong	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 River	compound
5	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 was	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 River	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 bridge	det
10	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 boat	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 boat	det
13	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boat	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 ferry	punct
15	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bridge	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 River	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 stood	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 legs	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 legs	nmod:poss
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stood	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hopped	cc
25	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 hopped	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 hopped	punct
29	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 hopped	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hopped	nsubj
31	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 yard	nummod
33	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hopped	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 hopped	punct
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 hopped	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hopped	nsubj
37	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
38	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 yards	nummod
39	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hopped	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 hopped	punct
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 hopped	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 hopped	nsubj
43	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
44	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 yards	nummod
45	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 hopped	obj
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 growing	punct
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 legs	nmod:poss
48	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 growing	nsubj
49	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stood	conj
50	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 growing	xcomp
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 growing	punct
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 legs	nmod:poss
53	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 growing	nsubj
54	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stood	parataxis
55	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	54 growing	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 growing	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 growing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no bridge and no ferry boat		the Wollgong River; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at river=Location
2	stand in a quote	past	bridge		bridge's legs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
3	hop in a quote	past	bridge not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hop in a quote	past	bridge	one yard			first property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory
5	hop in a quote	past	bridge	three yards		then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory
6	hop in a quote	past	bridge	five yards		then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory
7	grow in a quote	gerund	bridge's legs				strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	grow in a quote	gerund	bridge's legs				long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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.

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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