Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 99
All of a sudden the fawns snorted with extended nostrils at what they beheld.
Who acts: All, nostrils · What happens: snort, behold
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 (All, nostrils), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 snorted | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fawns | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fawns | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fawns | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fawns | det |
| 6 | fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 All | nmod |
| 7 | snorted | snort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 nostrils | case |
| 9 | extended | extended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nostrils | amod |
| 10 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 snorted | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 snorted | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beheld | nsubj |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 snorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snort | past | All | with extended nostrils | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | nostrils = nostril | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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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