Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 23
Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, grinning like a rat-trap, never getting nearer, never getting farther,--ran after Kangaroo.
What happens: run, grin, not get · To what, where: Dingo
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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dingo | punct |
| 5 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Dog | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yellow | punct |
| 7 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Dingo | compound |
| 8 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dingo | appos |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 hungry | punct |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 hungry | advmod |
| 11 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ran | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grinning | punct |
| 13 | grinning | grin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 trap | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 trap | det |
| 16 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trap | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 rat | punct |
| 18 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grinning | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 getting | punct |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 getting | advmod |
| 21 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 grinning | conj |
| 22 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 getting | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 getting | punct |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 getting | advmod |
| 25 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 grinning | conj |
| 26 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 getting | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ran | punct |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 ran | punct |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 Kangaroo | case |
| 31 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 ran | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Dingo | still | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dingo=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grin | gerund | like a rat trap | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not get | gerund | near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not get | gerund | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | run | past | after Kangaroo | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.
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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