Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 6
Not far off they saw a tuft of trees, which appeared as if there might be a spring of water beneath them.
Who acts: companions, tuft · What happens: see, appear, be · To what, where: tuft
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 (companions, tuft), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tuft | det |
| 7 | tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tuft | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tuft | acl:relcl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 spring | case |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 be | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 be | expl |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 be | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 spring | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spring | det |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spring | nmod |
| 22 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 appeared | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | companions = companion | a tuft of trees | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tuft=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | appear | past | a tuft of trees | beneath companions = companion | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath they=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | as a spring | of water | tree rules |
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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