The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 89
She walked carefully nearer, when suddenly she saw three dim figures on the ground and heard a loud snore.
Who acts: two · What happens: walk, see, hear · To what, where: three dim figures, ground, loud snore
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 walked | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 suddenly | advmod |
| 7 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 figures | nummod |
| 11 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 figures | amod |
| 12 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 snore | det |
| 19 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 snore | amod |
| 20 | snore | snore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | two | carefully, near property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | two | three dim figures | the ground | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | hear | past | two not said here | a loud snore | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snore=Stimulus |
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: «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (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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