Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 88
Halting at the entrance, they gazed through a long vista of lofty pillars, that were ranged from end to end of a great hall.
Who acts: king · What happens: halt, gaze, range · To what, where: entrance, that, end
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 (king), 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 | Halting | halt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gazed | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 entrance | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 entrance | det |
| 4 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Halting | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Halting | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gazed | nsubj |
| 7 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 vista | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 vista | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vista | amod |
| 11 | vista | vista | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gazed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pillars | case |
| 13 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pillars | amod |
| 14 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 vista | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ranged | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 ranged | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ranged | aux:pass |
| 18 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 vista | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ranged | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ranged | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hall | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hall | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hall | amod |
| 26 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | halt | gerund | king not said here | the entrance | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | king | through a long vista of lofty pillars | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through vista=Theme | ||||
| 3 | range | past · passive | that | from end; to end of a great hall | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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