Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 50

At length, when the moaning ceased, he sprang to his feet and ran like a nymph with swift outstretched toes.

Who acts: moaning · What happens: cease, spring, run, outstretch · To what, where: length

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 (moaning), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 ceased	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moaning	det
6	moaning	moaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ceased	nsubj
7	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sprang	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ceased	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sprang	nsubj
10	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feet	nmod:poss
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sprang	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ran	cc
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sprang	conj
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 nymph	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 nymph	det
18	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 swift	case
20	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nymph	nmod
21	outstretched	outstretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 toes	amod
22	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 swift	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	cease	past	the moaning			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	spring	past	moaning	length	to moaning's feet	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination
3	run	past	moaning not said here		like a nymph with swift and outstretched toes	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	outstretch	participle				tree rules

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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