Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 67
Wherever the grass was greenest, there she nibbled a mouthful or two.
Who acts: grass, cow · What happens: be, nibble · To what, where: mouthful
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 (grass, cow), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 greenest | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grass | det |
| 3 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 greenest | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 greenest | cop |
| 5 | greenest | green | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nibbled | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 nibbled | expl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 nibbled | nsubj |
| 9 | nibbled | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 greenest | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mouthful | det |
| 11 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nibbled | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 two | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 mouthful | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 greenest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the grass | green, wherever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nibble | past | cow | a mouthful | there | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=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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