Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 34

Were we to find her, she would now be a woman grown, and would look upon us all as strangers.

Who acts: we, girl · What happens: find, be, grow, look · To what, where: girl, woman

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 (we, girl), 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 woman	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 woman	aux
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 woman	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 woman	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 woman	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 look	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 look	aux
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	conj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 us	case
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 look	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 us	nmod:unmarked
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 strangers	case
22	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 look	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	we	girl			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	is a	would	girl	a woman	now		tree rules
3	grow	participle		a woman not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	would	we not said here			upon us; as strangers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon we=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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