Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 16
Something terrible has happened to the child, you may rest assured.
Who acts: Something, you · What happens: happen, rest, assure
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something, you), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Something | amod |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 child | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rest | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 rest | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 rest | aux |
| 11 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | conj |
| 12 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rest | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | Something | to the child | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rest | may | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | assure | participle | you not said here | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
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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