Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 72
Having shrieked in a torturing voice and mouthed extravagant names, the old toad rolled her tearless eyes with great satisfaction.
Who acts: old toad · What happens: shriek, mouth, roll · To what, where: torturing voice, extravagant names, tearless eyes
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 (old toad), 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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 shrieked | aux |
| 2 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 5 | torturing | torturing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 voice | compound |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shrieked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mouthed | cc |
| 8 | mouthed | mouth | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shrieked | conj |
| 9 | extravagant | extravagant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 names | amod |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mouthed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rolled | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 toad | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 toad | amod |
| 14 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | nsubj |
| 15 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 names | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tearless | tearless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rolled | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 satisfaction | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 satisfaction | amod |
| 21 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | gerund · perfect | a torturing voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | |||||
| 2 | mouth | past | extravagant names | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | roll | past | the old toad | mother's tearless eyes | with great satisfaction | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with satisfaction=Instrument |
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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