Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 121
So saying, Pluto pulled at the reins, and stopped the chariot right between the tall, massive pillars of the gateway.
Who acts: Pluto · What happens: say, pull, stop · To what, where: chariot · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pulled | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | nsubj |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 reins | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reins | det |
| 8 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulled | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chariot | det |
| 13 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | obj |
| 14 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 stopped | advmod |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 pillars | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pillars | det |
| 17 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pillars | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tall | punct |
| 19 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pillars | amod |
| 20 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stopped | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gateway | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gateway | det |
| 23 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pillars | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Pluto not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pull | past | Pluto | at the reins | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at rein=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | Pluto not said here | the chariot | between the tall massive pillars of the gateway; right property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality chariot=Eventuality |
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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