Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 10

The child promised to be as prudent as if she were a grown-up woman; and, by the time the winged dragons had whirled the car out of sight, she was already on the shore, calling to the sea nymphs to come and play with her.

Who acts: child · What happens: promise, be, grow up, wing, whirl, call · To what, where: winged dragons, sight, shore, sea nymphs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 prudent	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 prudent	cop
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 prudent	advmod
7	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 promised	ccomp
8	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	16 woman	case
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 as	fixed
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 woman	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 woman	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 woman	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 up	punct
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 grown	compound:prt
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prudent	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 whirled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 whirled	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 time	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whirled	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dragons	det
24	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 dragons	amod
25	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 whirled	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 whirled	aux
27	whirled	whirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 promised	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 car	det
29	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whirled	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	32 sight	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 sight	case
32	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whirled	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 shore	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 shore	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 shore	cop
36	already	already	ADV	_	39 shore	advmod
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 shore	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 shore	det
39	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 calling	punct
41	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 promised	advcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	45 nymphs	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 nymphs	det
44	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 nymphs	compound
45	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 calling	obl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 come	mark
47	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 calling	advcl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 play	cc
49	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 come	conj
50	with	with	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 play	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the child						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						prudent property	tree rules
3	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	child					as a grown woman	tree rules
5	wing	participle							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	whirl	past · perfect · passive		the winged dragons		sight	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme car=Result
7	is	past	child			the shore			tree rules
8	call	gerund	the child not said here		the sea nymphs				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nymph=Recipient
9	come	to-infinitive	the child not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	play	infinitive	the child not said here					with child	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent

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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