Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 2
They had rambled to some distance from the palace where their parents dwelt, and were now in a verdant meadow, on one side of which lay the sea, all sparkling and dimpling in the sunshine, and murmuring gently against the beach.
Who acts: Cadmus, parents, one side, all · What happens: ramble, dwell, be, lie, sparkle, dimple · To what, where: one side, verdant meadow, sea, sunshine, beach
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 (Cadmus, parents, one side, all), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rambled | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rambled | aux |
| 3 | rambled | ramble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 distance | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rambled | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distance | nmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 dwelt | advmod |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dwelt | nsubj |
| 13 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 palace | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meadow | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 meadow | cc |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 meadow | cop |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 meadow | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 meadow | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 meadow | det |
| 20 | verdant | verdant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 meadow | amod |
| 21 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rambled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 side | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 side | nummod |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rambled | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 lay | nsubj |
| 28 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 side | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sea | det |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lay | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sparkling | punct |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 sparkling | nsubj |
| 33 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 lay | advcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 dimpling | cc |
| 35 | dimpling | dimple | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 sparkling | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 sunshine | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sunshine | det |
| 38 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dimpling | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 murmuring | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 murmuring | cc |
| 41 | murmuring | murmur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rambled | advcl |
| 42 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 41 murmuring | advmod |
| 43 | against | against | ADP | _ | 45 beach | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 beach | det |
| 45 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 murmuring | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rambled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ramble | past · perfect | Cadmus | one side | to some distance from the palace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to distance=Destination | |||
| 2 | dwell | past | Cadmus's parents | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a verdant meadow | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | one side | the sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sea=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sparkle | gerund | all | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | dimple | gerund | all not said here | the sunshine | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | murmur speech: other | gerund | Cadmus not said here | the beach | gently property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against beach=Location |
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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