Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 21
I have run away from home partly to escape the importunity of these little wretches!
Who acts: I · What happens: run away, escape · To what, where: home, importunity
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obl |
| 7 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 9 escape | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 escape | mark |
| 9 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 importunity | det |
| 11 | importunity | importunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escape | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wretches | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 wretches | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wretches | amod |
| 15 | wretches | wretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 importunity | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | present · perfect | I | home | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | I not said here | the importunity of this little wretches | partly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme importunity=Initial_Location |
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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