Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 4
We will cultivate the neighboring soil and lead an innocent and happy life."
Who acts: We · What happens: cultivate, neighbor, lead · To what, where: neighboring soil, innocent life
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cultivate | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cultivate | aux |
| 3 | cultivate | cultivate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soil | det |
| 5 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 soil | amod |
| 6 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cultivate | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lead | cc |
| 8 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cultivate | conj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 life | det |
| 10 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happy | cc |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 innocent | conj |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lead | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cultivate | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cultivate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cultivate | future | We | the neighboring soil | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Product | ||||
| 2 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lead | present | We not said here | a innocent life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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