Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 100

In silence the hunter stood aside, while the happy father and mother caressed their baby boy grown tall.

Who acts: hunter, happy father · What happens: stand, caress, grow · To what, where: silence, baby boy

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter, happy father), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 silence	case
2	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunter	det
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caressed	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 caressed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 father	det
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caressed	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mother	cc
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	conj
14	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 boy	nmod:poss
16	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boy	compound
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caressed	obj
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 caressed	advcl
19	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grown	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the hunter		silence	aside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location
2	caress	past	the happy father and mother	hunters's baby boy			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Experiencer
3	grow	participle	the happy father and mother not said here			tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (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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