Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 104
When they had been gone a year, Telephassa threw away her crown, because it chafed her forehead.
Who acts: Telephassa, crown · What happens: go, throw away, chafe, crown · To what, where: garments, crown, forehead
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Telephassa, crown), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | aux:pass |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 threw | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 9 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | nsubj |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 threw | advmod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crown | nmod:poss |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chafed | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 chafed | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 chafed | nsubj |
| 17 | chafed | chafe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 threw | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 19 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chafed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect · passive | garments = garment | year | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw away | past | Telephassa | Telephassa's crown | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 3 | chafe | past | crown | Telephassa's forehead | vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forehead=Patient | ||||
| 4 | crown | Telephassa | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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