Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 85
It is a palace, all made of gold, with crystal windows; and because there is little or no sunshine thereabouts, the apartments are illuminated with diamond lamps.
Who acts: home, palace · What happens: be, make, illuminate · To what, where: palace, all, apartments
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 (home, palace), 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 | 4 palace | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 palace | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 palace | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 windows | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 windows | case |
| 12 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 windows | compound |
| 13 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 little | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 little | cc |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 little | cop |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 palace | appos |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 thereabouts | cc |
| 21 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 thereabouts | discourse |
| 22 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thereabouts | compound |
| 23 | thereabouts | thereabout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 little | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 illuminated | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 apartments | det |
| 26 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 28 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 thereabouts | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 lamps | case |
| 30 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lamps | compound |
| 31 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 illuminated | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | home | a palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle · passive | a palace not said here | all | of gold; with crystal windows | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 3 | is | present | little property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | illuminate | present · passive | the apartments | with diamond lamps | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with lamp=Theme |
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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