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title: Horrified was she to find the mysterious sound came out of the open… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Horrified was she to find the mysterious sound came out of the open mouth of her sleeping child! Who acts: sound, mysterious sound. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 81

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Horrified was she to find the mysterious sound came out of the open mouth of her sleeping child!

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**Who acts:** sound, mysterious sound · **What happens:** horrify, be, come out · **To what, where:** open mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, mysterious sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:13:81
# text = Horrified was she to find the mysterious sound came out of the open mouth of her sleeping child!
1	Horrified	horrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **horrify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | sound |  |  |  |  | find *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come out** | past | the mysterious sound | the open mouth of sound's sleeping child |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result |

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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.

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**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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