Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 8
But to me there is a peculiar, quiet charm in these broad meadows and gentle eminences.
Who acts: peculiar · What happens: be · To what, where: me
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 (peculiar), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 is | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 is | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 peculiar | det |
| 7 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 charm | punct |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 charm | amod |
| 10 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peculiar | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 meadows | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 meadows | det |
| 13 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 meadows | amod |
| 14 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 charm | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 eminences | cc |
| 16 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eminences | amod |
| 17 | eminences | eminence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meadows | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a peculiar | me | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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