Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 17
Having thus dropped the wood to the ground, she disappeared into her teepee.
Who acts: Having, willow · What happens: have, drop, disappear · To what, where: wood, ground, teepee
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 (Having, willow), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 dropped | csubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 disappeared | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 teepee | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 14 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappeared | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drop | past | Having | the wood | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wood=Theme to ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | disappear | past | willow | willow's teepee | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «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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