Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 83
In the woods and by the streams, she met creatures of another nature, who used, in those old times, to haunt the pleasant and solitary places, and were very sociable with persons who understood their language and customs, as Mother Ceres did.
Who acts: child, nature, persons, Mother Ceres · What happens: meet, use, haunt, be, understand, do · To what, where: creatures, woods, pleasant places, language
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 (child, nature, persons, Mother Ceres), 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 woods | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woods | det |
| 3 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 met | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 streams | cc |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 streams | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streams | det |
| 7 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 woods | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woods | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 met | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nature | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 nature | det |
| 14 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 creatures | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 used | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 used | nsubj |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 nature | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 times | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 times | case |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 times | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 times | amod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 used | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 haunt | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 haunt | mark |
| 25 | haunt | haunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 used | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 places | det |
| 27 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 places | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 solitary | cc |
| 29 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pleasant | conj |
| 30 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 haunt | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sociable | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sociable | cc |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sociable | cop |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 sociable | advmod |
| 35 | sociable | sociable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 met | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 persons | case |
| 37 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 sociable | obl |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 understood | nsubj |
| 39 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 persons | acl:relcl |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 language | nmod:poss |
| 41 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 understood | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 customs | cc |
| 43 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 language | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 did | punct |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 did | mark |
| 46 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Ceres | compound |
| 47 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 did | nsubj |
| 48 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | child | creatures of another nature | the woods and the streams | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | use | past | another nature | time | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | haunt | to-infinitive | another nature not said here | the pleasant places | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | child not said here | with persons; sociable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | understand | past | persons | persons's language and customs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | do | past | Mother Ceres | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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