Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 62
Then what a scream of terror did the poor child send forth!
Who acts: scream, terror · What happens: send, scream
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 (scream, terror), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 send | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 scream | det |
| 4 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 send | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scream | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 send | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 send | nsubj |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 send | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · do-support | a scream of terror | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scream | terror | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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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