Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 13
"This is the River Lethe," observed King Pluto. "
Who acts: This, River Lethe · What happens: be, observe · To what, where: River Lethe, Pluto
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 (This, River Lethe), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 observed | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Lethe | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Lethe | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lethe | det |
| 5 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lethe | compound |
| 6 | Lethe | Lethe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 observed | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lethe | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 observed | punct |
| 9 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pluto | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 observed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 observed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the River Lethe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | the River Lethe | Pluto King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pluto=Topic |
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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