Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 13
It looks, and is, as evanescent as a dream; and yet, in its rustic network of boughs, it has somehow enclosed a hint of spiritual beauty, and has become a true emblem of the subtile and ethereal mind that planned it.
Who acts: thing, subtile mind, spiritual beauty · What happens: look, be, enclose, become, plan, hint · To what, where: thing, true emblem
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, subtile mind, spiritual beauty), 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 | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 evanescent | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 evanescent | cc |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 evanescent | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 evanescent | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 evanescent | case |
| 8 | evanescent | evanescent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 dream | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dream | det |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 evanescent | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 yet | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 yet | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 looks | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 network | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 network | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 network | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rustic | rustic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 network | amod |
| 19 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 boughs | case |
| 21 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 network | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 enclosed | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 enclosed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 enclosed | aux |
| 25 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 26 enclosed | advmod |
| 26 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looks | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hint | det |
| 28 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 enclosed | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 beauty | case |
| 30 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 beauty | amod |
| 31 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hint | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 become | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 become | cc |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 become | aux |
| 35 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 looks | parataxis |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 emblem | det |
| 37 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 emblem | amod |
| 38 | emblem | emblem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 become | xcomp |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 mind | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 mind | det |
| 41 | subtile | subtile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 mind | amod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 ethereal | cc |
| 43 | ethereal | ethereal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 subtile | conj |
| 44 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 emblem | nmod |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 planned | nsubj |
| 46 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 mind | acl:relcl |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 planned | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | thing | yet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | thing not said here | as a dream; evanescent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enclose | present · perfect · passive | thing | somehow property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | present · perfect | a true emblem of the subtile mind | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | plan | past | the subtile mind | thing | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 6 | hint | spiritual beauty | nom hint «communication intransitive»: of=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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