Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 87
Then pausing a moment, he set his fan-like ears to catch any sound of approaching footsteps.
Who acts: Hin · What happens: pause, set, catch, approach · To what, where: like ears, sound
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hin), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 pausing | advmod |
| 2 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 set | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pausing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pausing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 like | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fan | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ears | amod |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 catch | mark |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 set | advcl |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 catch | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 footsteps | case |
| 18 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 footsteps | amod |
| 19 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sound | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | gerund | Hin not said here | then; moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set | past | Hin | Hin's like ears | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ear=Result | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | Hin not said here | any sound of approaching footsteps | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ||||
| 4 | approach | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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