Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 11

So rich and beautiful they were, that, if the shrubs grew wild here, and were native in the soil, then this island was surely the flower garden of the whole earth; or, if transplanted from some other clime, it must have been from the Happy Islands that lay towards the golden sunset.

Who acts: flowers, that, island, Happy Islands · What happens: be, grow, transplant, have, lay · To what, where: that, soil, flower garden, other clime

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: who acts (flowers, that, island, Happy Islands), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 rich	advmod
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 that	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 beautiful	cc
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rich	conj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 that	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 that	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 grew	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 grew	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shrubs	det
12	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	xcomp
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 wild	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 native	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 native	cc
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 native	cop
19	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 soil	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 soil	det
22	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 native	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 garden	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 garden	advmod
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 island	det
26	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 garden	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 garden	cop
28	surely	surely	ADV	_	31 garden	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 garden	det
30	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 garden	compound
31	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 native	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 earth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 earth	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 earth	amod
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 garden	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 transplanted	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 transplanted	cc
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 or	punct
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 transplanted	mark
40	transplanted	transplant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 grew	conj
41	from	from	ADP	_	44 clime	case
42	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 clime	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 clime	amod
44	clime	clime	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 transplanted	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 must	punct
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 must	nsubj
47	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	obl
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 must	xcomp
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 have	xcomp
50	from	from	ADP	_	53 Islands	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Islands	det
52	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Islands	amod
53	Islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 been	obl
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 lay	nsubj
55	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 Islands	acl:relcl
56	towards	towards	ADP	_	59 sunset	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 sunset	det
58	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 sunset	amod
59	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lay	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	flowers = flower	that				tree rules
2	grow	past	that				wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	that not said here		the soil		native property	tree rules
4	is a	past	this island	the flower garden		then	of the whole earth; surely property	tree rules
5	transplant a condition, not said to happen	participle	that not said here		some other clime			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	have	infinitive	that not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	lay	present	the Happy Islands			sunset		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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