Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 3
So she put on her turban, made of poppies (a kind of flower which she was always noted for wearing), and got into her car drawn by a pair of winged dragons, and was just ready to set off.
Who acts: busy · What happens: put, make, note, wear, get, draw · To what, where: turban, kind, car
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 (busy), 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 | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 turban | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 turban | nmod:poss |
| 6 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 turban | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 poppies | case |
| 10 | poppies | poppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poppies | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flower | case |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 noted | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 noted | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 noted | aux:pass |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 noted | advmod |
| 20 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 kind | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 wearing | mark |
| 22 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 noted | advcl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 got | cc |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 car | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 car | nmod:poss |
| 29 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 30 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 car | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 pair | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 pair | det |
| 33 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drawn | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 dragons | case |
| 35 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 dragons | amod |
| 36 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 pair | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ready | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ready | cc |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 ready | cop |
| 40 | just | just | ADV | _ | 41 ready | advmod |
| 41 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 got | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 set | mark |
| 43 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 ready | xcomp |
| 44 | off | off | ADP | _ | 43 set | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | busy | busy's turban | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on turban=Destination | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | busy's turban not said here | of poppies | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | note | past · passive | a kind of flower | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wear | gerund | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | get | past | busy's car | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into car=Destination | |||||
| 6 | draw | participle | busy's car not said here | by a pair of winged dragons | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | ready property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | set off | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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