Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 67
In a gruff, coarse voice she broke forth:
Who acts: pair · What happens: break · To what, where: gruff coarse voice
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 3 | gruff | gruff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gruff | punct |
| 5 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 broke | nsubj |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 broke | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | pair | a gruff coarse voice | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=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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