Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 106
As fast as their princely robes got torn and tattered, they exchanged them for such mean attire as ordinary people wore.
Who acts: robes, ordinary people · What happens: tear, tatter, exchange, wear · To what, where: princely robes, garments
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 (robes, ordinary people), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 fast | advmod |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 exchanged | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 torn | mark |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 robes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 robes | amod |
| 6 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 torn | aux:pass |
| 8 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 exchanged | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tattered | cc |
| 10 | tattered | tatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 torn | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 torn | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 exchanged | nsubj |
| 13 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 exchanged | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 attire | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 attire | amod |
| 17 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 attire | amod |
| 18 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exchanged | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 wore | mark |
| 20 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wore | nsubj |
| 22 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 exchanged | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 exchanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past · passive | garments's princely robes | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tatter | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | exchange | past | robes = robe | garments = garment | for such mean attire; fast property | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme for attire=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | wear | past | ordinary people | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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: «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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