Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 29

Now, there wasn’t any bridge, and there wasn’t any ferry-boat, and Kangaroo didn’t know how to get over; so he stood on his legs and hopped.

Who acts: Kangaroo · What happens: be, not know, get over, stand, hop · To what, where: bridge, ferry boat, legs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kangaroo), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 was	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stood	parataxis
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bridge	advmod
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bridge	det
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 was	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 was	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 was	parataxis
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 boat	advmod
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 boat	det
14	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boat	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ferry	punct
16	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 was	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 know	cc
19	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 know	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 boat	conj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 get	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	ccomp
26	over	over	ADV	_	25 get	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 stood	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 stood	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stood	nsubj
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 legs	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 legs	nmod:poss
33	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stood	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hopped	cc
35	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stood	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past		any bridge	there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past		any ferry boat	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	Kangaroo					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	get over	to-infinitive					over property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	stand	past	Kangaroo		Kangaroo's legs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
6	hop	past	Kangaroo not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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