Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 1

NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different Animal with four short legs.

Who acts: we · What happens: not be, behold · To what, where: Kangaroo

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 Kangaroo	advmod
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 Kangaroo	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Kangaroo	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Kangaroo	det
5	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 behold	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 now	case
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 behold	obl
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 behold	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 behold	aux
10	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 behold	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Animal	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 Animal	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Animal	det
15	Different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Animal	amod
16	Animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 behold	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 legs	case
18	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 legs	nummod
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 legs	amod
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Animal	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 behold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		the Kangaroo				always property	tree rules
2	behold	present · do-support	we	Kangaroo					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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.

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