Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 89
Often, likewise, she encountered fauns, who looked like sunburnt country people, except that they had hairy ears, and little horns upon their foreheads, and the hinder legs of goats, on which they gamboled merrily about the woods and fields.
Who acts: child, fauns, little horns · What happens: encounter, look, have, gambol · To what, where: fauns, hairy ears
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, fauns, little horns), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 6 encountered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Often | punct |
| 3 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 6 encountered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 encountered | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 encountered | nsubj |
| 6 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fauns | faun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 encountered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fauns | parataxis |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 12 | sunburnt | sunburnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | compound |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 16 | except | except | ADP | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 20 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ears | amod |
| 21 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 gamboled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 gamboled | cc |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 horns | amod |
| 25 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 gamboled | nsubj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 foreheads | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 foreheads | nmod:poss |
| 28 | foreheads | forehead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 horns | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 legs | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 legs | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 legs | det |
| 32 | hinder | hind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 legs | amod |
| 33 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 horns | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 goats | case |
| 35 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 legs | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 gamboled | punct |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 gamboled | obl |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gamboled | nsubj |
| 40 | gamboled | gambol | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 encountered | conj |
| 41 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 40 gamboled | advmod |
| 42 | about | about | ADP | _ | 44 woods | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 woods | det |
| 44 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 gamboled | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 fields | cc |
| 46 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 woods | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 encountered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encounter | past | child | fauns | likewise, often property | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer faun=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look | past | fauns | like sunburnt country people | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | fauns = faun | hairy ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | gambol | past | little horns upon horns's foreheads and the hinder legs of goats | about the woods and fields; merrily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory |
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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