---
title: Looking fearfully toward the bear and seeing his head was turned awa… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking fearfully toward the bear and seeing his head was turned away, he snatched up the small thick blood. Who acts: father. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/130/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/) / [The Badger and the Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/) / 130

# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 130

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Looking fearfully toward the bear and seeing his head was turned away, he snatched up the small thick blood.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** look, see, turn away, snatch up · **To what, where:** head, small thick blood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg338:7:130
# text = Looking fearfully toward the bear and seeing his head was turned away, he snatched up the small thick blood.
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward the bear; fearfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward bear=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **turn away** | past · passive |  | father's head |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **snatch up** | past | father | the small thick blood |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/129/)
- next →: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/131/)
- ↑ back to [The Badger and the Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/7/)