Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 38

He tucked up his front legs; he hopped on his hind legs; he stuck out his tail for a balance-weight behind him; and he hopped through the Darling Downs.

Who acts: Dingo · What happens: tuck up, hop, stick out · To what, where: front legs, hind legs, tail, Darling Downs

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tucked	nsubj
2	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 tucked	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legs	amod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tucked	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hopped	punct
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	2 tucked	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 legs	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 legs	nmod:poss
12	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 legs	amod
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hopped	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stuck	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stuck	nsubj
16	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tucked	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 stuck	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tail	nmod:poss
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stuck	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 weight	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 weight	det
22	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weight	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 balance	punct
24	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stuck	obl
25	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stuck	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 hopped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hopped	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hopped	nsubj
30	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tucked	conj
31	through	through	ADP	_	34 Downs	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Downs	det
33	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Downs	compound
34	Downs	Down	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 hopped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tuck up	past	Dingo	Dingo's front legs			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
2	hop	past	Dingo		Dingo's hind legs		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
3	stick out	past	Dingo	Dingo's tail		for a balance weight; behind Kangaroo	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme behind he=Destination
4	hop	past	Dingo		the Darling Downs		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through down=Trajectory

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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