Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 101
The child mustered all her strength, and gave one more scream, but was out of sight before Ceres had time to turn her head.
Who acts: child, Ceres · What happens: muster, give, be, have, turn · To what, where: strength, one more scream, sight, head
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, Ceres), 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 mustered | nsubj |
| 3 | mustered | muster | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 strength | advmod |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 strength | nmod:poss |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mustered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mustered | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 scream | nummod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 scream | amod |
| 12 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sight | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sight | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sight | cop |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | advcl |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 turn | mark |
| 24 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 time | acl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turn | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mustered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muster | past | the child | child's strength | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the child not said here | one more scream | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | sight | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Ceres | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | turn | to-infinitive | Ceres not said here | Ceres's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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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