Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 110
I go now to the better world, and, sooner or later, shall find my daughter there."
Who acts: I · What happens: go, find · To what, where: better world, daughter
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 go | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 world | amod |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sooner | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sooner | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sooner | punct |
| 11 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 go | advmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 later | cc |
| 13 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 sooner | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 go | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 find | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | I | the better world | now | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to world=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | find | shall | I not said here | my daughter | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic |
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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