Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 64
Yellow-Dog Dingo lay Like a yellow cloud in the distance-- Much too busy to bark.
Who acts: Yellow Dog · What happens: lay, bark
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 (Yellow Dog), 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 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dog | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yellow | punct |
| 3 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 9 cloud | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cloud | det |
| 8 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloud | amod |
| 9 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 distance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 distance | det |
| 12 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloud | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 busy | punct |
| 14 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 busy | amod |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 busy | advmod |
| 16 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 distance | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bark | mark |
| 18 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 busy | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Yellow Dog | like a yellow cloud in the distance | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bark | to-infinitive | Yellow Dog not said here | 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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