Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 10
It was bordered, too, with a great many sweet-smelling flowers, such as the mariners had never seen before.
What happens: border, smell, not see · To what, where: pathway, great many smelling flowers
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bordered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bordered | aux:pass |
| 3 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 bordered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flowers | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flowers | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flowers | amod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flowers | amod |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 smelling | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sweet | punct |
| 13 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 flowers | amod |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bordered | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 mariners | case |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mariners | det |
| 19 | mariners | mariner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seen | obl |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 seen | advmod |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 flowers | acl |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 seen | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | border | past · passive | pathway | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not see | past · perfect | a great many smelling flowers not said here | such the mariners; before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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