Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 33

First he hopped one yard; then he hopped three yards; then he hopped five yards; his legs growing stronger; his legs growing longer.

Who acts: Kangaroo, legs · What happens: hop, grow · To what, where: one yard, three yards, five yards

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, 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 hopped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hopped	nsubj
3	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 yard	nummod
5	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hopped	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hopped	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 hopped	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hopped	nsubj
9	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hopped	conj
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 yards	nummod
11	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hopped	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hopped	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 hopped	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hopped	nsubj
15	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hopped	conj
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 yards	nummod
17	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hopped	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 growing	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 legs	nmod:poss
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 growing	nsubj
21	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 hopped	conj
22	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 growing	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 growing	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 legs	nmod:poss
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 growing	nsubj
26	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hopped	conj
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 growing	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hop	past	Kangaroo	one yard		first property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory
2	hop	past	Kangaroo	three yards	then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory
3	hop	past	Kangaroo	five yards	then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory
4	grow	gerund	Kangaroo's legs			strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	gerund	Kangaroo's legs			long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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