Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 46
His long, loose hair hanging down his brown back and shoulders was carelessly tossed from his round face.
Who acts: long loose hair · What happens: hang down, toss · To what, where: brown back, long loose hair, round face
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 (long loose hair), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tossed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hair | acl |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 hanging | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 back | amod |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hanging | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shoulders | cc |
| 12 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 back | conj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tossed | aux:pass |
| 14 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 15 tossed | advmod |
| 15 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 face | amod |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tossed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang down | gerund | boy's long loose hair not said here | boy's brown back and shoulders | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient | ||||
| 2 | toss | past · passive | boy's long loose hair | boy's round face | carelessly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product from face=Material |
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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