Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 31
But, a little farther on, what should she behold?
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 farther | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 farther | obl |
| 5 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 farther | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 farther | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 farther | obj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 behold | nsubj |
| 11 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 9 should | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 farther | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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