Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 62

Stepping outside, she stood by the entrance way.

Who acts: pair · What happens: step, stand

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 (pair), 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	Stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stood	advcl
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Stepping	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stepping	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	compound
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	gerund	pair not said here					outside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	pair					by the entrance way	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by way=Location

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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