Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 54

Tell me what voice it was I heard which pleased my ears, but made my eyes grow wet!” said he, breathless.

Who acts: you, it, eyes, figure · What happens: tell, be, ear, make, grow, say · To what, where: voice, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, it, eyes, 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	cop
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 voice	acl:relcl
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ears	nsubj
10	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ears	amod
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ears	nmod:poss
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grow	nsubj
18	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 made	ccomp
19	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grow	xcomp
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 wet	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 breathless	punct
25	breathless	breathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	nsubj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	what voice	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient voice=Topic
2	is	past	it	what voice not said here		hear property	tree rules
3	ear						tree rules
4	make	past					tree rules
5	grow	present	my eyes			wet property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	figure				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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