Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 33
For, ever since he was a child, you know, it had been the great object of his life to find his sister.
Who acts: cavity, you, child · What happens: be, know, find · To what, where: great object, sister · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cavity, you, child), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 8 child | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 child | punct |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 child | advmod |
| 4 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 child | case |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 child | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 child | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 child | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 object | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 object | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 object | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 object | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 object | amod |
| 18 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 object | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 object | acl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cavity | ever | for a child | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | child | the great object | of cavity's life | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | you not said here | cavity's sister | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Topic |
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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