Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 91
But King Pluto, as he called himself, only shouted to his steeds to go faster.
Who acts: King · What happens: call, shout, go · To what, where: king, steeds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King), 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 | _ | 7 called | cc |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj |
| 3 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 called | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | nsubj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 called | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shouted | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 shouted | advmod |
| 11 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 called | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 steeds | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shouted | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 shouted | advcl |
| 17 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | King | king | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | participle | King not said here | king's steeds | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to steed=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | King not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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