Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 28
I know from my own experience, that an author's last work is always his best one, in his own estimate, until it quite loses the red heat of composition.
Who acts: I, last work, work, my, author, Periwinkle · What happens: know, be, lose, experience, work, estimate · To what, where: own experience, best one, red heat
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, last work, work, my), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 experience | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 experience | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 experience | amod |
| 6 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 one | mark |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 author | det |
| 10 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 work | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 author | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 work | amod |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | cop |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 one | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 one | nmod:poss |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 experience | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 estimate | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 estimate | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 estimate | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 estimate | amod |
| 23 | estimate | estimate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 loses | punct |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 28 loses | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 loses | nsubj |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 loses | advmod |
| 28 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 heat | det |
| 30 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 heat | amod |
| 31 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 loses | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 composition | case |
| 33 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heat | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | my own experience | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a author's last work | Periwinkle's best one and Periwinkle's own estimate | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lose | present | work | the red heat of composition | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | experience | my | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | work | a author | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | estimate | Periwinkle | nom estimate «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | heat | composition | nom heat «phenomenon 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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