Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 31
My appetite is as sharp as ever."
Who acts: appetite · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appetite), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 appetite | nmod:poss |
| 2 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sharp | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sharp | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 sharp | advmod |
| 5 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 sharp | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sharp | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sharp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My appetite | sharp property | tree rules |
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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