Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 64
Sweet Fern has learned to read and write, and has put on a jacket and pair of pantaloons--all of which improvements I am sorry for.
Who acts: Sweet Fern, all · What happens: learn, read, write, put, be · To what, where: jacket
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 (Sweet Fern, all), 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 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Fern | amod |
| 2 | Fern | Fern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | aux |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learned | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 write | cc |
| 8 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 read | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 learned | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 jacket | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 jacket | det |
| 15 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pair | cc |
| 17 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jacket | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pantaloons | case |
| 19 | pantaloons | pantaloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pair | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 sorry | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 sorry | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 improvements | case |
| 23 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 24 improvements | det |
| 24 | improvements | improvement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 all | nmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 sorry | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sorry | cop |
| 27 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 learned | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 sorry | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · perfect | Sweet Fern | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | Sweet Fern not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | write | infinitive | Sweet Fern not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put | present · perfect | Sweet Fern not said here | a jacket and pair of pantaloons | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on jacket=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is | present | all | sorry property | 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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