Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 44

One evening, across the lake from where the crying woman stood, a pair of bright black eyes peered at her through the tall reeds and wild rice.

Who acts: crying woman, pair · What happens: cry, stand, peer · To what, where: tall reeds

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 (crying woman, pair), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 peered	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lake	punct
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evening	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 where	case
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 stood	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lake	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pair	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pair	det
15	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 peered	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 eyes	case
17	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eyes	amod
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eyes	amod
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pair	nmod
20	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 peered	obl
23	through	through	ADP	_	26 reeds	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 reeds	det
25	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reeds	amod
26	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 peered	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rice	cc
28	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rice	amod
29	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reeds	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 peered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past	the crying woman				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	peer	past	a pair of bright black eyes	the tall reeds and wild rice	evening	at mother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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