Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 70
And as it happened, she had not gone far before she found one of the magnificent flowers which grew on the shrub that Proserpina had pulled up.
Who acts: it, mother, magnificent flowers, Proserpina · What happens: happen, not go, find, grow, pull up · To what, where: one, shrub
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 (it, mother, magnificent flowers, Proserpina), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gone | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 happened | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 gone | advmod |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 gone | advmod |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 flowers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flowers | det |
| 17 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flowers | amod |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 shrub | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shrub | det |
| 23 | shrub | shrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grew | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 pulled | mark |
| 25 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 pulled | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 pulled | aux |
| 27 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 grew | advcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 pulled | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not go | past · perfect | mother | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | mother | one of the magnificent flowers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the magnificent flowers | the shrub | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shrub=Location | ||||
| 5 | pull up | past · perfect | Proserpina | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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