Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 7
On went the chariot, and King Pluto seemed greatly pleased to find himself once more in his own kingdom.
Who acts: King · What happens: go, seem, find · To what, where: chariot, King
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 (King), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 went | mark |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chariot | det |
| 4 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pleased | xcomp |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 find | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kingdom | amod |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 more | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the chariot | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chariot=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | King | pleased property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | King not said here | King | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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