Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 102
King Pluto had taken a road which now began to grow excessively gloomy.
Who acts: Pluto, road · What happens: take, begin, grow · To what, where: road
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 (Pluto, road), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pluto | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 began | nsubj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 began | advmod |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 road | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 grow | mark |
| 11 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | excessively | excessively | ADV | _ | 13 gloomy | advmod |
| 13 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grow | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | Pluto King | a road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | a road | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | a road not said here | gloomy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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