Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 49
When the first poet or romancer told these marvellous legends (such is Eustace Bright's opinion), it was still the Golden Age.
Who acts: first poet, opinion · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: marvellous legends, such Eustace, Golden Age · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (first poet, opinion), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 poet | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 poet | amod |
| 4 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 romancer | cc |
| 6 | romancer | romancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poet | conj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 legends | det |
| 9 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legends | amod |
| 10 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Eustace | punct |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Eustace | amod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Eustace | cop |
| 14 | Eustace | Eustace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 legends | appos |
| 15 | Bright | Bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Bright | case |
| 17 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Eustace | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 Eustace | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 Age | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Age | cop |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 Age | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Age | det |
| 24 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Age | amod |
| 25 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 Age | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the first poet or romancer | this marvellous legends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent legend=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | such Eustace | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | opinion | the Golden Age | still | 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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