Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 29
So she finally consented to go, and they set out together, both carrying torches, although it was broad daylight and clear sunshine.
Who acts: Hecate, world, torch · What happens: consent, go, set out, carry, be · To what, where: torches, broad daylight
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 (Hecate, world, torch), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 consented | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 consented | advmod |
| 4 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 consented | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 consented | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 set | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carrying | punct |
| 14 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 15 carrying | cc:preconj |
| 15 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 set | advcl |
| 16 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carrying | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 daylight | punct |
| 18 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 daylight | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 daylight | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 daylight | cop |
| 21 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 daylight | amod |
| 22 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carrying | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sunshine | cc |
| 24 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sunshine | amod |
| 25 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daylight | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Hecate | finally property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Hecate not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set out | past | world | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | world not said here | torches | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | torch | broad daylight and clear sunshine | tree rules |
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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