Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 43
We had a glimpse of her, as you remember, half hidden among the waving grain, while the four black steeds were swiftly whirling along the chariot, in which her beloved Proserpina was so unwillingly borne away.
Who acts: We, you, four black steeds · What happens: have, remember, hide, wave, whirl, bear away · To what, where: glimpse, waving grain, chariot, beloved Proserpina, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, you, four black steeds), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 glimpse | det |
| 4 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 glimpse | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remember | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 remember | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hidden | punct |
| 12 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 hidden | advmod |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 remember | ccomp |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 grain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grain | det |
| 16 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 grain | amod |
| 17 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hidden | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 whirling | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 whirling | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 steeds | det |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 steeds | nummod |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 steeds | amod |
| 23 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 whirling | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 whirling | aux |
| 25 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 26 whirling | advmod |
| 26 | whirling | whirl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hidden | advcl |
| 27 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 chariot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chariot | det |
| 29 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 whirling | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 borne | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 borne | obl |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 Proserpina | nmod:poss |
| 34 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Proserpina | amod |
| 35 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 borne | aux |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 borne | advmod |
| 38 | unwillingly | unwillingly | ADV | _ | 39 borne | advmod |
| 39 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 whirling | conj |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 39 borne | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | We | a glimpse of mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide | participle | the waving grain | half property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among grain=Location | ||||
| 4 | wave | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | whirl | past · progressive | the four black steeds | the chariot | swiftly property | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along chariot=Destination | |||
| 6 | bear away | past · passive | mother's beloved Proserpina | away, unwillingly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | glimpse | mother | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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