Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 69

At all events, this was the way in which she began her sorrowful journey, holding her torch before her, and looking carefully at every object along the path.

Who acts: events, mother, way · What happens: be, begin, hold, look, journey · To what, where: way, sorrowful journey, torch

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 (events, mother, way), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 events	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 events	det
3	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 way	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 events	punct
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 began	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	acl:relcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 journey	nmod:poss
14	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 journey	amod
15	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 holding	punct
17	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 began	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 torch	nmod:poss
19	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 holding	obj
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 holding	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looking	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looking	cc
24	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 way	acl
25	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	24 looking	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 object	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 object	det
28	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looking	obl
29	along	along	ADP	_	31 path	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 path	det
31	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looking	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	all events	the way				tree rules
2	begin	past	mother	mother's sorrowful journey	the way			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality
3	hold	gerund	mother not said here	mother's torch		before mother		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Theme before she=Location
4	look	gerund	the way not said here				along the path; at every object; carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at object=Theme
5	journey		mother					nom journey «act transitive»: 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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