Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 16

Near the entrance way she stooped low, at once shifting the bundle to the right and with both hands lifting the noose from over her head.

Who acts: willow, hands · What happens: stoop, shift, lift · To what, where: entrance way, bundle, right, noose, head

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 (willow, hands), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	4 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
3	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	compound
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stooped	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stooped	nsubj
6	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stooped	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shifting	punct
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	11 shifting	mark
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 shifting	advmod
11	shifting	shift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stooped	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bundle	det
13	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shifting	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 right	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 right	det
16	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shifting	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hands	cc
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 hands	det
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 right	conj
21	lifting	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 hands	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 noose	det
23	noose	noose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lifting	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 head	case
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 head	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lifting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stoop	past	willow		the entrance way	low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near way=Location
2	shift	gerund	willow not said here	the bundle	the right and both hands	once property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme to right=Destination
3	lift	gerund	both hands not said here	the noose	willow's head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent noose=Theme from head=Destination

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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