Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 43

Down sat Kangaroo--Old Man Kangaroo--stuck out his tail like a milking-stool behind him, and said, ‘Thank goodness that’s finished!’

Who acts: Old Man Kangaroo · What happens: sit, stick out, say, thank, finish · To what, where: Kangaroo, tail, goodness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Old Man Kangaroo), 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	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 Kangaroo	punct
5	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Kangaroo	amod
6	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Kangaroo	flat
7	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 stuck	punct
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Kangaroo	acl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 stuck	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tail	nmod:poss
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	17 stool	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stool	det
15	milking	milking	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stool	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 milking	punct
17	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obl
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stool	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Thank	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Thank	punct
25	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
26	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Thank	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 finished	nsubj:pass
28	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 finished	aux:pass
29	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 goodness	acl:relcl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Thank	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past		Kangaroo	Old Man Kangaroo obl; down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kangaroo=Theme
2	stick out	participle	Old Man Kangaroo not said here	Kangaroo's tail	like a milking stool behind Kangaroo	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	thank speech: thank	present		goodness		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Theme
5	finish	present · passive		goodness		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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