Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 61

Listen!” replied the great old toad.

Who acts: you · What happens: listen, reply · To what, where: great old toad · 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), 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	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct
4	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 toad	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toad	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toad	amod
8	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 replied	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	reply speech: assert in a quote	past		the great old toad					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toad=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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