Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 8
At length the mother laid aside her red quills and white sinew-threads.
Who acts: mother · What happens: lay · To what, where: length
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | nsubj |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 9 quills | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 quills | nmod:poss |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quills | amod |
| 9 | quills | quill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laid | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threads | cc |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 threads | amod |
| 12 | sinew | sinew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threads | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sinew | punct |
| 14 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 quills | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the mother | length | aside mother's red quills and white sinew threads | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination |
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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