Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 13

He hopped "like a cricket; like a pea in a saucepan; or a new rubber ball on a nursery floor", and "stuck out his tail for a balance-weight behind him".

Who acts: bridge · What happens: hop, stick out · To what, where: new rubber ball, tail

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hopped	nsubj
2	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cricket	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 cricket	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cricket	det
6	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hopped	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 pea	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 pea	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pea	det
10	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hopped	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 saucepan	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 saucepan	det
13	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pea	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 ball	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 ball	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ball	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ball	amod
18	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ball	compound
19	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hopped	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 floor	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 floor	det
22	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 floor	compound
23	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ball	nmod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 floor	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stuck	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stuck	cc
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 stuck	punct
28	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hopped	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 stuck	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tail	nmod:poss
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuck	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 weight	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 weight	det
34	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 weight	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 balance	punct
36	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuck	obl
37	behind	behind	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stuck	obl
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 stuck	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	past	bridge	a new rubber ball on a nursery floor				like a cricket; like a pea in a saucepan	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stick out in a quote	past	bridge not said here	bridge's tail				for a balance weight; behind bridge	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme behind he=Destination

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, 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. Sentence school:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:13.

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): no change. 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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