Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 19

Off went the proud Kangaroo on his four little legs like a bunny.

What happens: go · To what, where: proud Kangaroo, four little legs

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: 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	Off	off	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Kangaroo	det
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Kangaroo	amod
5	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 legs	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 legs	nummod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legs	amod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 bunny	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bunny	det
13	bunny	bunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 legs	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past		the proud Kangaroo		Kangaroo's four little legs like a bunny		off property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kangaroo=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.

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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