Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 7
The sea nymphs are good creatures, and will never lead you into any harm.
Who acts: sea nymphs, good creatures · What happens: be, not lead · To what, where: good creatures, you, harm
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 (sea nymphs, good creatures), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nymphs | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nymphs | compound |
| 3 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 creatures | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 creatures | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creatures | amod |
| 6 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lead | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lead | cc |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lead | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 lead | advmod |
| 11 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 lead | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 harm | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 harm | det |
| 15 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lead | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 creatures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the sea nymphs | good creatures | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not lead | future | good creatures not said here | you | any harm | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into harm=Destination |
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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