Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 67
Cowslip, during the autumn, had either the measles, or some eruption that looked very much like it, but was hardly sick a day.
Who acts: Cowslip, eruption · What happens: have, look, be · To what, where: measles
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 (Cowslip, eruption), 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 | Cowslip | cowslip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 autumn | punct |
| 3 | during | during | ADP | _ | 5 autumn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 autumn | det |
| 5 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cowslip | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cowslip | punct |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 10 measles | cc:preconj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 measles | det |
| 10 | measles | measle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eruption | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 eruption | cc |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 eruption | det |
| 14 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 eruption | acl:relcl |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 it | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sick | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 sick | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sick | cop |
| 24 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 25 sick | advmod |
| 25 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 had | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sick | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Cowslip and the autumn | the measles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | some eruption | like eruption | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | day | hardly, sick 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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