Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 42

Down sat Dingo--Poor Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusky in the sunshine; hung out his tongue and howled.

What happens: sit, hang out, howl · To what, where: Dingo, tongue

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	Down	down	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 Dingo	punct
5	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Dingo	amod
6	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Dingo	compound
7	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Dingo	appos
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 hungry	punct
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 hungry	advmod
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dusky	punct
12	dusky	dusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hungry	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 sunshine	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sunshine	det
15	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dusky	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
17	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 hung	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tongue	nmod:poss
20	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 howled	cc
22	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hung	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Dingo	down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dingo=Theme
2	hang out	participle	Dingo's tongue		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
3	howl	past			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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