Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 63
She was old and badly puffed out.
Who acts: pair · What happens: be, puff out
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 old | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | cop |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 puffed | cc |
| 5 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 puffed | advmod |
| 6 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 old | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 puffed | compound:prt |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pair | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | puff out | participle | pair not said here | badly property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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