Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 11
But his limbs were strong and active, and well accustomed to exercise.
Who acts: limbs · What happens: be, accustom
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (limbs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 strong | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | cop |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 active | cc |
| 7 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strong | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 accustomed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 accustomed | cc |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 accustomed | advmod |
| 11 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 strong | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 exercise | case |
| 13 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accustomed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mariner's limbs | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | mariner's limbs not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | accustom | participle | mariner's limbs not said here | to exercise; well property | tree rules |
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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