Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 46
Did the roots extend down into some enchanted cavern?
Who acts: roots · What happens: extend down, enchant · To what, where: enchanted cavern
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 (roots), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 roots | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roots | det |
| 3 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 extend | nsubj |
| 4 | extend | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 extend | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 cavern | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 cavern | det |
| 8 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cavern | amod |
| 9 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 extend | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 extend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend down | present | the roots | some enchanted cavern | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into cavern=Path | ||||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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