Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 28

Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, grinning like a horse-collar, never getting nearer, never getting farther; and they came to the Wollgong River.

Who acts: legs · What happens: run, grin, not get, come · To what, where: Dingo, Wollgong River

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 (legs), 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	2 ran	obl
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 hungrier	punct
10	hungrier	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 Dingo	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hungrier	cc
12	hungrier	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 hungrier	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grinning	punct
14	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
15	like	like	ADP	_	19 collar	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 collar	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 collar	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 horse	punct
19	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grinning	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 getting	punct
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 getting	advmod
22	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 grinning	conj
23	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 getting	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 getting	punct
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 getting	advmod
26	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 getting	conj
27	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 getting	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 River	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 River	det
34	Wollgong	Wollgong	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 River	compound
35	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past		Dingo		still	Dog Dingo obl	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dingo=Agent
2	grin	gerund					like a horse collar	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	come	past	legs = leg		the Wollgong River			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_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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