Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 25
This cavity, you must know, was looked upon as a sort of fountain of truth, which sometimes gushed out in audible words; although, for the most part, these words were such a riddle that they might just as well have staid at the bottom of the hole.
Who acts: you, words · What happens: know, look, gush out, be, stai, sort · To what, where: cavity, truth, audible words, riddle, bottom, fountain
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 (you, words), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 cavity | det |
| 2 | cavity | cavity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cavity | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cavity | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cavity | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | aux:pass |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 sort | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 sort | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sort | det |
| 13 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fountain | case |
| 15 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sort | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 truth | case |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fountain | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gushed | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 gushed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 gushed | advmod |
| 21 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 truth | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 gushed | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 words | case |
| 24 | audible | audible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gushed | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 part | punct |
| 27 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 32 part | mark |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 part | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 part | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 part | det |
| 31 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 part | amod |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 riddle | punct |
| 34 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 35 words | det |
| 35 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 riddle | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 riddle | cop |
| 37 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 riddle | det:predet |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 riddle | det |
| 39 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 part | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 staid | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 staid | nsubj |
| 42 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 staid | aux |
| 43 | just | just | ADV | _ | 47 staid | advmod |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 47 staid | cc |
| 45 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 as | fixed |
| 46 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 staid | aux |
| 47 | staid | stai | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 riddle | advcl |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 bottom | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 bottom | det |
| 50 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 staid | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 hole | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 hole | det |
| 53 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 bottom | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | you | this cavity not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cavity=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past · passive | this cavity | upon a sort of fountain of truth | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | gush out | participle · passive | truth | audible words | sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | past | this words | such riddle | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stai | might · perfect | words = word | the bottom of the hole | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sort | fountain of truth | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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