Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 66
Huckleberry, Milkweed, and Dandelion were attacked with the whooping cough, but bore it bravely, and kept out of doors whenever the sun shone.
Who acts: sun · What happens: attack, bear, keep out, shine · To what, where: Huckleberry, cough, doors
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 (sun), 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 | Huckleberry | Huckleberry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Milkweed | punct |
| 3 | Milkweed | Milkweed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Huckleberry | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dandelion | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Dandelion | cc |
| 6 | Dandelion | Dandelion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Huckleberry | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 attacked | aux:pass |
| 8 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cough | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cough | det |
| 11 | whooping | whooping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cough | compound |
| 12 | cough | cough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attacked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bore | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 bore | cc |
| 15 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 attacked | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bore | obj |
| 17 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 15 bore | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kept | cc |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 attacked | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 doors | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 doors | case |
| 23 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kept | obl |
| 24 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 shone | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sun | det |
| 26 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shone | nsubj |
| 27 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 kept | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past · passive | Huckleberry Milkweed and Dandelion | with the whooping cough | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | cough | bravely property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep out | participle | doors | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shine | past | the sun | whenever property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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