Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 45
He never lifted the door-flap, but thrusting it aside entered slowly in.
Who acts: crackling, thrusting · What happens: not lift, thrust, enter · To what, where: door flap, flap
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crackling, thrusting), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flap | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flap | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 door | punct |
| 7 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entered | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 entered | cc |
| 10 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 entered | csubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thrusting | obj |
| 12 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 10 thrusting | advmod |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 14 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 entered | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 entered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lift | past | crackling | the door flap | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thrust | gerund | flap | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | thrusting | slowly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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