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title: First he hopped one yard; then he hopped three yards; then he hopped… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: First he hopped one yard; then he hopped three yards; then he hopped five yards; his legs growing stronger; his legs growing longer. Who acts: Kangaroo, legs. 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 c
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# Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 33

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First he hopped one yard; then he hopped three yards; then he hopped five yards; his legs growing stronger; his legs growing longer.

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**Who acts:** Kangaroo, legs · **What happens:** hop, grow · **To what, where:** one yard, three yards, five yards

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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, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2781:7:33
# text = First he hopped one yard; then he hopped three yards; then he hopped five yards; his legs growing stronger; his legs growing longer.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop** | past | Kangaroo | one yard |  |  |  | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hop** | past | Kangaroo | three yards |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hop** | past | Kangaroo | five yards |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | Kangaroo's legs |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund | Kangaroo's legs |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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