Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 77

“No, no!” pouted the boy with some impatience.

What happens: pout · To what, where: boy

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: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 pouted	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 pouted	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 No	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
7	pouted	pout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pouted	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 impatience	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 impatience	det
12	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pout	past		the boy				with some impatience	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme

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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