Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 63
Periwinkle is very much grown, and is expected to shut up her baby house and throw away her doll in a month or two more.
What happens: be, expect, shut up, throw away · To what, where: Periwinkle, baby house, doll
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: 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 | Periwinkle | periwinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 grown | advmod |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 expected | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 expected | cc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 expected | aux:pass |
| 9 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 grown | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 shut | mark |
| 11 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 expected | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 shut | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | compound |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shut | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 throw | cc |
| 17 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 shut | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 throw | advmod |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 doll | nmod:poss |
| 20 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throw | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 month | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 month | det |
| 23 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throw | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 more | cc |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 more | nummod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 month | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | Periwinkle | grow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | present · passive | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | shut up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Clover's baby house | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | |||||
| 4 | throw away | infinitive | Clover's doll | month | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Theme |
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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