Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 20
However, he had fixed upon an admirable place to dwell in.
What happens: fix, dwell in · To what, where: Phoenix
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: 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 fixed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fixed | aux |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | admirable | admirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fixed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 dwell | mark |
| 11 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 place | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dwell | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · perfect · passive | Phoenix | upon a admirable place; however property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dwell in | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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