Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 18

As they waded through the mud, the Grasshopper's legs stuck, and he pulled them off!

Who acts: Grasshopper, four · What happens: wade, pull off · To what, where: mud, Grasshopper

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshopper, four), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 waded	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waded	nsubj
3	waded	wade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stuck	advcl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 mud	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mud	det
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waded	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 waded	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Grasshopper	det
9	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 legs	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Grasshopper	case
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stuck	nsubj
12	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pulled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pulled	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pulled	nsubj
16	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stuck	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pulled	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	16 pulled	compound:prt
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wade	past	Grasshopper			the mud			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mud=Trajectory
2	pull off	past	four	Grasshopper					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

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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