Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 14
Do you see that gentleman dancing on an ashpit?
Who acts: you, gentleman · What happens: see, dance · To what, where: gentleman, ashpit
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 (you, gentleman), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 gentleman | det |
| 5 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 gentleman | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ashpit | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ashpit | det |
| 9 | ashpit | ashpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dancing | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | that gentleman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gentleman=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | that gentleman not said here | a ashpit | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ashpit=Location |
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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