Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 6
Beside her lay a black-eyed baby boy cooing and laughing.
Who acts: duck, eyed baby boy · What happens: lie, coo, laugh · To what, where: eyed baby boy
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 (duck, eyed baby boy), 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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 lay | mark |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyed | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 black | punct |
| 7 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boy | compound |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 10 | cooing | coo | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 boy | acl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughing | cc |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 cooing | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | duck | a eyed baby boy | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | coo | gerund | a eyed baby boy not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | a eyed baby boy not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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