--- title: At five o'clock the Kangaroo sat with his tail "like a milking-stool… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: At five o'clock the Kangaroo sat with his tail "like a milking-stool behind him" and said "Thank goodness that's finished!"; Dingo, now "Tired-Dog Dingo" and "Poor Dog Dingo", sat down, hung out his tongue and howled, and wanted something for his tea. Who acts: Kangaroo, Dingo. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kangaroo, Dingo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:14 # text = At five o'clock the Kangaroo sat with his tail "like a milking-stool behind him" and said "Thank goodness that's finished!"; Dingo, now "Tired-Dog Dingo" and "Poor Dog Dingo", sat down, hung out his tongue and howled, and wanted something for his tea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Kangaroo Kangaroo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 milking milking NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 stool stool NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 16 behind behind ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 23 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 ccomp _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Dingo Dingo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 now now ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 34 Tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:amod 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Dingo Dingo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 41 Poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Dingo Dingo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 sat sat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 47 down down ADP RP _ 46 compound:prt _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 50 out out ADP RP _ 49 compound:prt _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 howled howl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 conj _ _ 58 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 57 obj _ _ 59 for for ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ _ 62 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | the Kangaroo | | | five o'clock | | with Kangaroo's tail; like a milking stool behind bridge | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at o'clock=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Kangaroo *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | goodness | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **finish** *in a quote* | present · passive | | that | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **sat down** | past | Dingo | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hang out** | past | the Kangaroo *not said here* | bridge's tongue | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | | 7 | **howl** | past | the Kangaroo *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **want** | past | the Kangaroo *not said here* | something | | | | for bridge's tea | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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