Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 73
Hopping back into her dwelling, she asked:
Who acts: mother · What happens: hop back, ask · To what, where: dwelling
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 (mother), 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 | Hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Hopping | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 dwelling | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hopping | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hopping | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop back | gerund | mother not said here | mother's dwelling | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into dwelling=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | mother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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