Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 36
For he hopped like a cricket; like a pea in a saucepan; or a new rubber ball on a nursery floor.
Who acts: Dingo · What happens: hop · To what, where: new rubber ball
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 (Dingo), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 hopped | mark |
| 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 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 cricket | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cricket | det |
| 6 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hopped | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 pea | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 pea | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pea | det |
| 10 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hopped | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 saucepan | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 saucepan | det |
| 13 | saucepan | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pea | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ball | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 ball | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ball | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ball | amod |
| 18 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ball | compound |
| 19 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hopped | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 floor | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 floor | det |
| 22 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 floor | compound |
| 23 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ball | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | Dingo | a new rubber ball on a nursery floor | like a cricket; like a pea in a saucepan | 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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