Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 81
Horrified was she to find the mysterious sound came out of the open mouth of her sleeping child!
Who acts: sound, mysterious sound · What happens: horrify, be, come out · To what, where: open mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, mysterious sound), 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 | Horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 find | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 7 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sound | amod |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mouth | det |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mouth | amod |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 child | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 child | amod |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mouth | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | sound | find property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come out | past | the mysterious sound | the open mouth of sound's sleeping child | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result |
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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