The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 88
She went into the lodge, and when she saw the panther she was frightened almost to death, and the boys laughed.
Who acts: grandmother, panther, boys · What happens: go, see, frighten, laugh · To what, where: lodge, panther, grandmother
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, panther, boys), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 lodge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lodge | det |
| 5 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 panther | det |
| 12 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 frightened | aux:pass |
| 15 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 panther | acl:relcl |
| 16 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 18 death | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frightened | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laughed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 laughed | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boys | det |
| 22 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 laughed | nsubj |
| 23 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | grandmother | the lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | grandmother | the panther | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer panther=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | frighten | past · passive | the panther not said here | grandmother | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | laugh | past | the boys | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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