Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 27
The dismal Hecate did not much like the idea of going abroad into the sunny world.
Who acts: idea · What happens: go · To what, where: sunny world
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 (idea), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hecate | det |
| 2 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hecate | amod |
| 3 | Hecate | Hecate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 idea | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 idea | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 idea | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 idea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 going | mark |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 idea | acl |
| 12 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 15 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 world | amod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | the idea not said here | the sunny world | abroad property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location |
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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