Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 10
Not far from the gateway, they came to a bridge, which seemed to be built of iron.
Who acts: gems, bridge · What happens: come, seem, build · To what, where: bridge
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gems, bridge), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 came | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 gateway | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gateway | det |
| 5 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 far | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bridge | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bridge | det |
| 11 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 built | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 built | aux:pass |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 iron | case |
| 19 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | gems = gem | a bridge | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | seem | past | a bridge | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive · passive | a bridge not said here | of iron | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» |
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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