Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 32
It was a large shrub, completely covered with the most magnificent flowers in the world.
Who acts: apron · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: large shrub
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 (apron), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shrub | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shrub | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shrub | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shrub | amod |
| 5 | shrub | shrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 covered | punct |
| 7 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 8 covered | advmod |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shrub | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 flowers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flowers | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 magnificent | advmod |
| 12 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flowers | amod |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 covered | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flowers | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | apron | a large shrub | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a large shrub not said here | with the magnificent flowers in the world; completely property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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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