Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 30
She was on the point of turning back in order to rejoin the sea nymphs, and sit with them on the moist sands, all twining wreaths together.
Who acts: Proserpina, point · What happens: be, turn back, rejoin, sit, twine · To what, where: point, sea nymphs, moist sands
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 (Proserpina, point), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 point | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 point | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 point | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 point | det |
| 5 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 turning | mark |
| 7 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 point | acl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 turning | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 rejoin | mark |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 in | fixed |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rejoin | mark |
| 12 | rejoin | rejoin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 turning | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nymphs | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nymphs | compound |
| 15 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rejoin | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sit | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sit | cc |
| 18 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 point | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sit | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 sands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sands | det |
| 23 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sands | amod |
| 24 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sit | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wreaths | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 wreaths | det |
| 27 | twining | twine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 wreaths | amod |
| 28 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sands | conj |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 wreaths | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 point | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Proserpina | the point | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn back | gerund | the point not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rejoin | to-infinitive | the point not said here | the sea nymphs | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nymph=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sit | infinitive | the moist sands and all twining wreaths | with nymphs = nymph | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sand=Location | ||||
| 5 | twine | gerund | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: 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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