Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 17
As well as I could judge, a dragon, or some other cruel monster, was carrying her away."
Who acts: I, some · What happens: judge, monster, carry away · To what, where: dragon, monster
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 (I, some), 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 | As | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 6 judge | cc |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 judge | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 judge | aux |
| 6 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dragon | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 judge | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 monster | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 monster | cc |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 monster | nsubj |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 monster | amod |
| 14 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 monster | amod |
| 15 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragon | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carrying | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 carrying | aux |
| 18 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 judge | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carrying | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 carrying | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 judge | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | could | I | a dragon or other cruel monster | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent dragon=Value | ||||
| 2 | monster | some | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | carry away | past · progressive | I not said here | monster | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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