--- title: Now, there wasn’t any bridge, and there wasn’t any ferry-boat, and K… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: Now, there wasn’t any bridge, and there wasn’t any ferry-boat, and Kangaroo didn’t know how to get over; so he stood on his legs and hopped. Who acts: Kangaroo. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/7/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/7/) / 29 # Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 29 Now, there wasn’t any bridge, and there wasn’t any ferry-boat, and Kangaroo didn’t know how to get over; so he stood on his legs and hopped. **Who acts:** Kangaroo · **What happens:** be, not know, get over, stand, hop · **To what, where:** bridge, ferry boat, legs · **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 (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:7:29 # text = Now, there wasn’t any bridge, and there wasn’t any ferry-boat, and Kangaroo didn’t know how to get over; so he stood on his legs and hopped. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 4 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 13 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 14 ferry ferry NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 Kangaroo Kangaroo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 21 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 23 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 26 over over ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 hopped hop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | | any bridge | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **be** | past | | any ferry boat | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Kangaroo | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **get over** | to-infinitive | | | | | | over *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **stand** | past | Kangaroo | | | Kangaroo's legs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 6 | **hop** | past | Kangaroo *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/7/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/7/30/) - ↑ back to [The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/7/)