Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 5
At last, when his upper lip began to have the down on it, Phoenix grew weary of rambling hither and thither to no purpose.
Who acts: upper lip, Phoenix · What happens: begin, have, grow, ramble · To what, where: last, down, lip, purpose
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 (upper lip, Phoenix), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 began | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 began | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lip | nmod:poss |
| 6 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lip | amod |
| 7 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 down | det |
| 12 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 have | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 16 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | conj |
| 18 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 rambling | mark |
| 20 | rambling | ramble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 weary | advcl |
| 21 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 20 rambling | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thither | cc |
| 23 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 21 hither | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 purpose | case |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 purpose | det |
| 26 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rambling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | sight's upper lip | last | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | sight's upper lip not said here | the down | lip | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent down=Patient | |||
| 3 | grow | past | Phoenix | weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ramble | gerund | Phoenix not said here | no purpose | hither property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to purpose=Destination |
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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