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title: Stepping boldly to the largest fawn, he looked closely at the little… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Stepping boldly to the largest fawn, he looked closely at the little brown spots all over the furry face. Who acts: desire. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 118

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Stepping boldly to the largest fawn, he looked closely at the little brown spots all over the furry face.

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**Who acts:** desire · **What happens:** step, look · **To what, where:** largest fawn

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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 (desire), 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:pg338:6:118
# text = Stepping boldly to the largest fawn, he looked closely at the little brown spots all over the furry face.
1	Stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	furry	furry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | gerund | desire *not said here* |  |  | the largest fawn |  | boldly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fawn=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | past | desire |  |  |  |  | at the little brown spots over the furry face; closely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spot=Theme |

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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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