Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 53
A few years will do all that is necessary towards showing him the truth in both respects.
Who acts: few years, that · What happens: do, be, show · To what, where: truth, dreamer, respects
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 (few years, that), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 necessary | csubj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 necessary | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 necessary | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 necessary | cop |
| 9 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 11 showing | mark |
| 11 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 necessary | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 showing | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showing | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 respects | case |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 respects | det |
| 17 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 showing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | a few years | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | gerund | that not said here | the truth | dreamer | both respects | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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