Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 32
The sun was shining slantwise over the field, and showed all the moist, dark soil just like any other newly-planted piece of ground.
Who acts: sun · What happens: shine, show, plant · To what, where: field, moist dark soil
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | aux |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | slantwise | slantwise | ADV | _ | 4 shining | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 showed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 showed | cc |
| 11 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 soil | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soil | det |
| 14 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soil | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moist | punct |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soil | amod |
| 17 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | obj |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 piece | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 piece | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 piece | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 piece | amod |
| 22 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 24 planted | advmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 newly | punct |
| 24 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 piece | amod |
| 25 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 ground | case |
| 27 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 piece | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | the field | slantwise property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location | |||
| 2 | show | past | the sun not said here | all moist dark soil | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent soil=Recipient piece=Topic | ||||
| 3 | plant | participle | newly property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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