Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 118

Stepping boldly to the largest fawn, he looked closely at the little brown spots all over the furry face.

Who acts: desire · What happens: step, look · To what, where: largest fawn

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire), 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	Stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 looked	advcl
2	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Stepping	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 fawn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fawn	det
5	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 fawn	amod
6	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stepping	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stepping	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	closely	closely	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 spots	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spots	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spots	amod
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spots	amod
15	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 looked	obl
16	all	all	ADV	_	20 face	advmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	20 face	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 face	det
19	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 face	amod
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spots	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	gerund	desire not said here			the largest fawn		boldly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fawn=Destination
2	look	past	desire					at the little brown spots over the furry face; closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spot=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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