Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5, sentence 3
This is Harmonia, a daughter of the sky, who is given you instead of sister, and brothers, and friend, and mother.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, give · To what, where: Harmonia, daughter, you
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Harmonia | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Harmonia | cop |
| 3 | Harmonia | Harmonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Harmonia | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 given | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux:pass |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 daughter | acl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 given | iobj |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 sister | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brothers | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brothers | cc |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 given | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 friend | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 friend | cc |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brothers | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mother | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mother | cc |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brothers | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Harmonia | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | Harmonia | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present · passive | a daughter of the sky | you | instead sister; brothers and friend and mother obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=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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