Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 40
It is really the most beautiful shrub that ever sprang out of the earth.
Who acts: courage · What happens: be, spring out · To what, where: beautiful shrub, earth
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 (courage), 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 | 7 shrub | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shrub | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 shrub | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shrub | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shrub | amod |
| 7 | shrub | shrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sprang | obj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 sprang | advmod |
| 10 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shrub | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprang | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shrub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | courage | the beautiful shrub | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spring out | past | the beautiful shrub | the earth | ever | tree rules |
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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