Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 7

Reaching and kicking upward with his tiny hands and feet, he played with the dangling strings of his heavy-beaded bonnet hanging empty on a tent pole above him.

Who acts: boy, heavy beaded bonnet · What happens: reach, kick, play, bead, hang · To what, where: tent pole

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 (boy, heavy beaded bonnet), 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	Reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 played	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 kicking	cc
3	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Reaching	conj
4	upward	upward	ADV	_	3 kicking	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 hands	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hands	amod
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kicking	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feet	cc
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hands	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Reaching	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 played	nsubj
13	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 strings	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strings	det
16	dangling	dangling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strings	compound
17	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 played	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	23 bonnet	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bonnet	nmod:poss
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bonnet	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 heavy	punct
22	beaded	bead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 bonnet	amod
23	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strings	nmod
24	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 bonnet	acl
25	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hanging	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 pole	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pole	det
28	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pole	compound
29	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hanging	obl
30	above	above	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pole	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	reach	gerund	boy not said here			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kick	gerund	boy not said here		with boy's tiny hands and feet; upward property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with hand=Instrument
3	play	past	boy		with the dangling strings of boy's heavy beaded bonnet	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with string=Theme
4	bead	participle				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	hang	gerund	boy's heavy beaded bonnet not said here	a tent pole above boy	empty property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pole=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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