Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 49
As the voice grew hoarse and only sobs shook the slender figure of the woman, the eyes of the wild boy grew dim and wet.
Who acts: voice, sobs, slender figure · What happens: grow, shake, figure · To what, where: woman
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 (voice, sobs, slender figure), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 grew | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shook | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 sobs | advmod |
| 8 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shook | nsubj |
| 9 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 figure | det |
| 11 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 figure | amod |
| 12 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 figure | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyes | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eyes | det |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 woman | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 boy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 boy | amod |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shook | parataxis |
| 24 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wet | cc |
| 26 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dim | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the voice | hoarse property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | sobs | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | the slender figure of the woman and the eyes of the wild boy | dim property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | figure | the woman and the eyes of the wild boy | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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