Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 40
Still ran Dingo--Tired-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, very much bewildered, and wondering when in the world or out of it would Old Man Kangaroo stop.
What happens: run, bewilder, wonder · To what, where: Dingo, Dog Dingo
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: 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 | _ | 2 ran | punct |
| 5 | Tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Dog | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tired | 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 | _ | 16 bewildered | punct |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 bewildered | advmod |
| 16 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Dingo | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wondering | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wondering | cc |
| 19 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 wondering | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 when | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 stop | cc |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stop | obl |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 stop | aux |
| 29 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 stop | amod |
| 30 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Kangaroo | flat |
| 31 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 stop | compound |
| 32 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 world | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 | bewilder | participle | Dog Dingo not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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