Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 68
In her haste and trouble of mind, she quite forgot her car and the winged dragons; or, it may be, she thought that she could follow up the search more thoroughly on foot.
Who acts: mother, mind · What happens: forget, wing, be, think, follow up, trouble · To what, where: car, haste, search, foot, mind · 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 (mother, mind), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 haste | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 haste | nmod:poss |
| 3 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forgot | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 trouble | cc |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 haste | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trouble | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 haste | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 forgot | nsubj |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 forgot | advmod |
| 11 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 car | nmod:poss |
| 13 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forgot | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dragons | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dragons | det |
| 16 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 dragons | amod |
| 17 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 car | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 be | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 be | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 or | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 be | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 be | aux |
| 23 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forgot | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 forgot | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 follow | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 follow | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 follow | aux |
| 30 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 thought | ccomp |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 follow | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 search | det |
| 33 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 follow | obj |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 thoroughly | advmod |
| 35 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 30 follow | advmod |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 foot | case |
| 37 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 follow | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | mother | mother's car and the winged dragons | mother's haste and trouble of mind | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | be | may | mind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | mother | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow up | could | mother | the search | foot | thoroughly property | tree rules | ||
| 6 | trouble | mind | nom trouble «cognition 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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