Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 3
The three boys were very happy, gathering flowers, and twining them into garlands, with which they adorned the little Europa.
Who acts: three boys, boys · What happens: be, gather, twine, adorn · To what, where: flowers, garlands, little Europa
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 (three boys, boys), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 boys | nummod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gathering | punct |
| 8 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 happy | advcl |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathering | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twining | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 twining | cc |
| 12 | twining | twine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 gathering | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 twining | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 garlands | case |
| 15 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 twining | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 adorned | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 adorned | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 adorned | nsubj |
| 20 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 twining | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Europa | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Europa | amod |
| 23 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 adorned | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the three boys | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gather | gerund | the three boys not said here | flowers | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | twine | gerund | the three boys not said here | flowers = flower | garlands | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into garland=Destination | |||
| 4 | adorn | past | boys = boy | the little Europa | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent europa=Destination with which=Theme |
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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