Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 65
Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and Buttercup have had the scarlet fever, but came easily through it.
Who acts: Buttercup, scarlet fever · What happens: have, come · To what, where: scarlet fever, fever
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 (Buttercup, scarlet fever), 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 | Squash | squash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Blossom | compound |
| 2 | Blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Eye | punct |
| 4 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Eye | amod |
| 5 | Eye | Eye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Blossom | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Plantain | punct |
| 7 | Plantain | Plantain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Eye | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | Buttercup | Buttercup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | aux |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Blossom | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fever | det |
| 14 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fever | compound |
| 15 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fever | acl:relcl |
| 19 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Blossom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | Buttercup | the scarlet fever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the scarlet fever not said here | fever | easily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location |
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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