Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 31
There is no substance in the life which we are leading.
Who acts: substance · What happens: be, lead
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 (substance), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 substance | det |
| 4 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 substance | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 leading | nsubj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 leading | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leading | aux |
| 11 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 substance | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no substance in the life | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | present · progressive | no substance in the life | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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