Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 82
What should it be but the most magnificent palace that had ever been seen in the world.
Who acts: palace · What happens: be, see · To what, where: magnificent palace, world
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 (palace), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 palace | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 palace | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 palace | cop |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 palace | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 magnificent | advmod |
| 8 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 palace | amod |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 seen | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 palace | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | palace | the magnificent palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | the magnificent palace | the world | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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