Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 77
The night is dark, and there is no knowing what troubles and perils we may meet with."
Who acts: night, no, troubles · What happens: be, know, meet · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (night, no, troubles), 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 | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dark | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dark | cop |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 is | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dark | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 is | nsubj |
| 10 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 no | acl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 meet | obj |
| 12 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 meet | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 perils | cc |
| 14 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 troubles | conj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 meet | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 meet | aux |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knowing | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 meet | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dark | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the night | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | meet | may | troubles and perils | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Co-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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