Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 64
She had reared a large family of little toads, but none of them had aroused her love, nor ever grieved her.
Who acts: pair · What happens: rear, arouse, grieve, love · To what, where: pair, none
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 reared | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reared | aux |
| 3 | reared | rear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 family | amod |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reared | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 toads | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 toads | amod |
| 9 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 family | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 aroused | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 aroused | cc |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 16 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 none | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 aroused | aux |
| 16 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reared | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 love | nmod:poss |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 aroused | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grieved | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 grieved | cc |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 grieved | advmod |
| 22 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reared | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 grieved | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear | past · perfect · passive | pair | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | arouse | past · perfect · passive | none | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer love=Result | |||||
| 3 | grieve | past | pair | ever | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | love | pair | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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