Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 69
But still the poor child screamed, and scattered her apron full of flowers along the way, and left a long cry trailing behind the chariot; and many mothers, to whose ears it came, ran quickly to see if any mischief had befallen their children.
Who acts: poor child, long cry, cry, many mothers · What happens: scream, scatter, leave, trail, come, run · To what, where: apron, long cry, chariot, ears, mischief
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 (poor child, long cry, cry, many mothers), 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 | _ | 6 screamed | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 screamed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 screamed | nsubj |
| 6 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scattered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scattered | cc |
| 9 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 screamed | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 apron | nmod:poss |
| 11 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scattered | obj |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scattered | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flowers | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scattered | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cry | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cry | amod |
| 23 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 24 | trailing | trail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 cry | acl |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 chariot | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 chariot | det |
| 27 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trailing | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 ran | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ran | cc |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 mothers | amod |
| 31 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 ran | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ears | punct |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 ears | case |
| 34 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 35 ears | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 mothers | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 came | nsubj |
| 37 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 ears | acl:relcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mothers | punct |
| 39 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 screamed | conj |
| 40 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 39 ran | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 see | mark |
| 42 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 ran | advcl |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 47 befallen | mark |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 mischief | det |
| 45 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 befallen | aux |
| 47 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 see | ccomp |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 children | nmod:poss |
| 49 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 befallen | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | participle | the poor child | still | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | scatter | past | the poor child not said here | child's apron | full property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent apron=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | past | the poor child not said here | a long cry | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 4 | trail | gerund | a long cry not said here | the chariot | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind chariot=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | come | past | cry | many mothers and many mothers and ears's ears's ears not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run | past | many mothers and many mothers and many mothers's ears's ears | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | many mothers and many mothers and many mothers's ears's ears not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | befall a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | any mischief | 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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