Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 44
Again the girl pulled with all her might, and observed that the earth began to stir and crack to some distance around the stem.
Who acts: earth · What happens: pull, observe, begin, stir, crack · To what, where: girl
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 (earth), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 might | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 might | det:predet |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 might | nmod:poss |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 observed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 observed | cc |
| 11 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 began | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 observed | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stir | mark |
| 17 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crack | cc |
| 19 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stir | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 distance | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 distance | det |
| 22 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crack | obl |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 stem | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stem | det |
| 25 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 distance | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle · passive | the girl | again | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | the earth | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | stir | to-infinitive | the earth not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | crack | infinitive | the earth not said here | to some distance around the stem result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to distance=Result |
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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