Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 100
Who, but Mother Ceres, making the corn grow, and too busy to notice the golden chariot as it went rattling along.
Who acts: Mother Ceres, chariot · What happens: make, grow, notice, go, rattle · To what, where: corn, golden chariot
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 (Mother Ceres, chariot), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 grow | cc |
| 4 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ceres | compound |
| 5 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 making | punct |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Ceres | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corn | det |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obj |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 busy | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 busy | cc |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 busy | advmod |
| 14 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grow | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 notice | mark |
| 16 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 busy | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chariot | det |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chariot | amod |
| 19 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 notice | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 went | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 notice | advcl |
| 23 | rattling | rattle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 went | xcomp |
| 24 | along | along | ADV | _ | 23 rattling | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | Mother Ceres not said here | the corn | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | notice | to-infinitive | the golden chariot | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go | past | chariot | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | rattle | gerund | chariot not said here | along property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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