Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 50
So she quickly left the field in which she had been so busy; and, as her work was not half done, the grain looked, next day, as if it needed both sun and rain, and as if it were blighted in the ear, and had something the matter with its roots.
Who acts: girl, grain · What happens: leave, be, not do, look, need, blight · To what, where: field, work, sun, grain, ear, something
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 (girl, grain), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 busy | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 busy | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 busy | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 busy | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 busy | advmod |
| 13 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 field | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 looked | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 work | nmod:poss |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 done | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 done | advmod |
| 22 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 23 done | advmod |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 looked | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 done | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grain | det |
| 26 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looked | nsubj |
| 27 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 day | punct |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 needed | punct |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 needed | mark |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 needed | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 needed | nsubj |
| 35 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 looked | conj |
| 36 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 sun | det |
| 37 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 needed | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 rain | cc |
| 39 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sun | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 blighted | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 blighted | cc |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 blighted | mark |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 blighted | mark |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 blighted | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 blighted | aux:pass |
| 46 | blighted | blight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 looked | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 ear | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 ear | det |
| 49 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 blighted | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 had | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 had | cc |
| 52 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 53 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 52 had | obj |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 matter | det |
| 55 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 had | obj |
| 56 | with | with | ADP | _ | 58 roots | case |
| 57 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 roots | nmod:poss |
| 58 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 had | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | girl | the field | quickly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | girl | the field | busy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not do | past · passive | girl's work | half property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | look | past | the grain | day | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | need a condition, not said to happen | past | grain | both sun and rain | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sun=Theme | ||||
| 6 | blight a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | grain | the ear | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | have | past | girl not said here | something | with grain's roots | tree rules | |||
| 8 | work | girl | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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