Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 109
"Ah, this twilight is truly refreshing," said King Pluto, "after being so tormented with that ugly and impertinent glare of the sun. How much more agreeable is lamplight or torchlight, more particularly when reflected from diamonds!
Who acts: twilight, Pluto · What happens: refresh, say, torment, be, reflect · To what, where: agreeable lamplight, diamonds · 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 (twilight, Pluto), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 refreshing | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 refreshing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 twilight | det |
| 5 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refreshing | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 refreshing | aux |
| 7 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 8 refreshing | advmod |
| 8 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 refreshing | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 refreshing | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Pluto | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 tormented | mark |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 tormented | aux:pass |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 tormented | advmod |
| 19 | tormented | torment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 agreeable | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 glare | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 glare | det |
| 22 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 glare | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 impertinent | cc |
| 24 | impertinent | impertinent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ugly | conj |
| 25 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tormented | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sun. | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sun. | det |
| 28 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 glare | nmod |
| 29 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 31 more | advmod |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 agreeable | advmod |
| 32 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lamplight | amod |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 lamplight | cop |
| 34 | lamplight | lamplight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | parataxis |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 torchlight | cc |
| 36 | torchlight | torchlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lamplight | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 reflected | punct |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 particularly | advmod |
| 39 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 41 reflected | advmod |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 reflected | advmod |
| 41 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 lamplight | acl |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 diamonds | case |
| 43 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 reflected | obl |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refresh in a quote | present · progressive | this twilight | truly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Pluto King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | torment in a quote | gerund · passive | with that ugly glare of the sun. | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | agreeable lamplight or torchlight | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | reflect in a quote | participle | diamonds | particularly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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