Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 80
The queen leaned heavily upon her son's arm, and could walk only a few miles a day.
Who acts: queen · What happens: learn, walk · To what, where: few miles
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 (queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaned | nsubj |
| 3 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 3 leaned | advmod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 arm | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 son | case |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walk | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 walk | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 walk | aux |
| 13 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 leaned | conj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 miles | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 miles | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 miles | amod |
| 17 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 walk | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 miles | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the queen | upon queen's son's arm; heavily property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk | could | the queen not said here | a few miles a day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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