Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 19
So there she stood, with her pretty mouth wide open, as pale as the white lilies that were twisted among the other flowers in her garlands.
Who acts: fright · What happens: stand, twist · To what, where: white lilies, garlands
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 (fright), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mouth | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouth | amod |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 open | advmod |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouth | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pale | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 pale | case |
| 14 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 lilies | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lilies | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lilies | amod |
| 18 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pale | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 twisted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 twisted | aux:pass |
| 21 | twisted | twist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 lilies | acl:relcl |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 flowers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flowers | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flowers | amod |
| 25 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 twisted | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 garlands | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 garlands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 twisted | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | fright | there | with fright's pretty mouth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | twist | past · passive | the white lilies | fright's garlands | among the other flowers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme among flower=Source in garland=Trajectory |
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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