Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 31
With his spotless hue, he resembled a snow drift, wafted along by the wind.
Who acts: bull · What happens: resemble, waft · To what, where: snow drift
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 (bull), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 hue | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hue | nmod:poss |
| 3 | spotless | spotless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hue | amod |
| 4 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 resembled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hue | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 resembled | nsubj |
| 7 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drift | det |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drift | compound |
| 10 | drift | drift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 resembled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wafted | punct |
| 12 | wafted | waft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 drift | acl |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 wafted | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 wind | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wafted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 resembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resemble | past | bull | a snow drift | with bull's spotless hue | tree rules | |||
| 2 | waft | participle | a snow drift not said here | by the wind; along property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=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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